Alexandra Catiere | MMX | 30 June — 31 August 2010

Alexandra Catiere was born in 1978 in Minsk, Belarus. She fell in love with photograhy while studying at Minsk state linguistic university. In 2003, under the influence of her art guru, famous soviet artist Yuriy Ku¬per, she moved to New York where she completed a certificate program at the International Center of Pho¬tography. After graduating from ICP, she worked for a year in the studio of an internationally renowned pho-tographer Irving Penn. In 2005 Alexandra Catiere was included in the list of 20 most promising emerg¬ing photographers of New York and became a participant of Art & Commerce, a traveling exhibition of emerg-ing photographers that began its journey in D.U.M.B.O., NYC. Two years later Catiere was named an emerging star of international photography scene according to the important photography magazine Ameri¬can Photo.
Alexandra has been participating in international photographic festivals in France, Japan, Italy, she has also been selected to be in DESCUBRIMIENTOS PhotoEspana 2006, Madrid. In 2006 she received a “Silver Camera” award of Moscow House of Photography in the nomination “Faces”.
In 2009 Pobeda gallery presented Alexandra Catiere at Paris Photo and in June 2010 Pobeda gallery will be presenting her new series at VOLTA6 in Basel.
Apart from art photography Alexandra has been working as a fashion photographer. She is constantly work-ing with The New Yorker, The New York Times, Le Monde, Dazed&Confused, Gentelwoman, American Photo, Crash.