Hello, I’m Antonina!
I’m a mother, photographer, artist, writer, activist, mentor, auDHDer, human – not necessarily in that order.
My work is focused on documentation of the lived human experience in all its richness and complexity. I work with private clients to celebrate their real life, find beauty in the most mundane moments and preserve them for the family album, to be passed on to future generations. In my personal artistic practice I explore the themes of identity and belonging; trauma and recovery; and the human connection with nature.
I have been working as a professional photographer since 2009 and my work is highly regarded within the photographic industry. I now split my time between photographing families and businesses in London (and beyond), working on long-term personal photographic projects, speaking at photography conferences and mentoring photographers and creatives from across the world.
Love and care for people and planet are at the core of everything I do. Everyone is welcome and safe in my spaces. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Awards
Taylor Wessing Portrait Prize, longlisted – 2024
Format 24 Portfolio Award – 2024
OD Photo Prize, longlisted – 2023
Photo Oxford Open Call, runner up – 2023
18th Julia Margaret Cameron Award, Winner, Children Category – 2022
Voice – Judges Choice and Honourable Mention – 2022
Top 100 Female Photographers To Watch by Click Community – 2022
Portrait of Britain 2021, shortlisted – 2021
This Is Reportage Family Awards – 2021
Documentary Family Awards, finalist – 2021
Portrait of Britain 2019, shortlisted – 2019
Top UK Documentary Family Photographer, FJPA – 2018
Top 10 Worldwide Documentary Family Photographer, FPJA – 2018
Documentary Family Awards, honourable mention – 2017
Exhibitions
Bodies of Water (solo), Sea Lanes Brighton – 2024
Girls + Guts, Fringe Arts Bath Festival, UK – 2024
To The Sea, Saint Gillies Croix de Vie, France – 2023
Photo Oxford Festival, Modern Art Oxford, UK – 2023
Power of Play, The Old Court House, London, UK – 2023
ThreadED, Fringe Arts Bath Festival, UK – 2023
Night Moods, Shutter Hub – 2023
SOLAR Festival, Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil – 2022
Summer Exhibition, The Royal Academy, UK – 2022
Traces, PHOTO-Canopy 2022, Burton On Trent, UK – 2022
Heathrow Airport, UK – 2022
She Takes Over (Out of Home Campaign), UK – 2022
Despatch, New Forest Heritage Centre, UK – 2022
Postcards from Europe, Art at the ARB, Cambridge University, UK – 2022
Picture (im)Perfect, Origin Gallery, Norfolk, VA, USA – 2021
Picture (im)Perfect, Florida Museum of Photographic Arts, USA – 2021
Phlock Spotlight Exhibition, Manchester, UK – 2021
Behind the Mask, NHS Confederation Conference (online) – 2021
Visions of Fatherhood, Luupe, online – 2021
100 Years of Stonehendge, English Heritage – 2020-2021
Behind the Mask, NHS Tribute Project, St Ethelburga’s Centre of Reconciliation, London, UK – 2020
Group Exhibition, Berlin Blue Gallery – 2020
Group Exhibition, The Print Space – 2017
Publications and Features
Der Greif Guest Room – 2025
Stir the Pot, Overlapse – 2024
Women Photograph Annual – 2023
Things, Work House Zine vol 4 – 2023
Beauty Hunting: Photography as Therapy – We Are, the RPS Women Photography Magazine – 2022
Drawing of Dyslexia – AOP Spotlight Feature – 2022
Roadtrip – ShutterHub Publication – 2022
F-Stop Magazine, Parenting Issue – 2022
Black River Magazine – 2022
The Sunday Times – Portrait of Britain feature – 2021
Breakfast of Champions, Photo Cereal Zine, feature – 2021
United by Work Show Grow, cover and feature – 2021
Picture (im)Perfect, book feature – 2021
Digital Photographer Magazine, feature – 2021
#SheTakesOver, feature – 2021
British Photography Journal, feature – 2019
Portrait of Britain vol 2, book feature – 2019
Speaking and Interviews
Get Real – The Photography Show, London Excel, 2025
You’re Worth It, Phlock Live Conference for Female and Non-Binary Photographers, 2022
The No Posing Guide, The Societies of Photographers Convention, London, 2022
Meditations on Marginalisation, Artist Talk Salon, Work Show Grow, 2021
Real is the new perfect, The Photography Show, NEC Birmingham, 2021
Documentary family photography: the art of real life, Phlock Live Conference, 2021
Documentary family photography: the art of real life, The Photography Show, 2021
Seeing family love with photography, The Family Photographer Podcast, 2019
On documentary family photography, Shoot Edit Chat Repeat Podcast, 2019
Collections
Works are held in a number of private collections.
