by Antonina Mamzenko | Feb 13, 2024 | Uncategorized
TL;DR: Please pre-order my book via Kickstarter. The majority (56 percent) of all Kickstarter projects fail. So it really should have come as no surprise when the Kickstarter to publish my debut photography book Beauty Hunting failed last summer. I only...
by Antonina Mamzenko | Jan 22, 2024 | Uncategorized
A small village called Cioburciu, on the banks of river Dniester, in the Soviet Republic of Moldova was where I spent every childhood summer until I was 11 years old, all three glorious months it, from early June to the end of August. We would stuff boxes and...
by Antonina Mamzenko | Jan 1, 2024 | Uncategorized
Around this time last year I wrote about not making any New Year’s resolutions. How it was, in fact, crazy that we became conditioned to make them at the gloomiest part of the year (I took the paywall off that post – you’re welcome to read it and share your own...
by Antonina Mamzenko | Dec 26, 2023 | Uncategorized
Several authors and creatives I follow recently announced, with fanfare, that they are leaving Instagram… only to confess in the next breath that they are, actually, just giving the keys to a member of a team who will still continue posting important updates on their...
by Antonina Mamzenko | Dec 23, 2023 | Uncategorized
I’ll start with a confession. I don’t celebrate Christmas. Not really. Hashtag awkward. I’m sure pretended to for years, in an effort to assimilate, to be like everyone else. But if I’m honest with myself, I don’t actually care all that much. I grew up in the Soviet...
