Kristina Shakht is a Russian-American photographer and visual artist based in New York City. Working across photography and film, her practice investigates how identity and femininity are shaped through visibility, performance, and displacement.

Born in Saint Petersburg, Russia, and shaped by migration in both childhood and adulthood, Shakht works from a position of in-betweenness. Her images inhabit spaces where the staged and the observed collapse, and where distance, absence, and restraint operate as deliberate forces rather than neutral conditions.

Drawing from lived experience without becoming autobiographical, her work resists resolution. Memory, ritual, and the body recur as sites where private experience intersects with collective and political pressure.

Her work has been featured in i-D, Dazed, AnOther Magazine, Office, and Sleek.



Available for editorial, commercial, and moving image commissions:

Email: kristinashakht@gmail.com
Instagram: @kristinashakht
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