The project highlights the territorial conflict between the urban development machine and the needs of a large municipal shelter, hosting several thousand animals. This conflict is an example of the gentrification phenomenon in the realities of modern Russia.
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In a series of photographs Veronika poses several questions: do domesticated animals have the right to preserve their temporary habitat? Can an entity that has significant power put its interests forward and ignore the needs of a weaker one? Trubnikova manages to expose this conflict by displaying three sides of the story:
- the expanding city,
- volunteers and their work,
- and dogs themselves.
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Many images were taken from the animals’ perspective, conveying their states. Veronika often anthropomorphizes dogs that have become human companions over a long history of coexistence.
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The project is released as a photobook with images of dogs that became the main characters of the story. The book comes with an accompanying booklet shedding more light on the shelter and the city, as well as the volunteers’ narrative and the feelings they share when talking about each dog they have been taking care of.

«Wool» paper was chosen for the book cover, tactile and visually prickly. Pages are printed on recycled paper with inclusions. The book is black and white, partially copying the way animals see, as well as addressing to the visual language of volunteer forums: a black-and-white image means the loss of an animal.

soft cover
240 x 320 mm.
64 pages
print run of 100 copies, including 25 in english
Moscow, 2022

<All copies are signed and numbered>

Paper: Planet Eco natural white 118 g/m2, Remake Oyster 120 g/m2, Refit Eco wool 360 g/m2, Kernow synthetic fabric 100 g/m2

Safari is a personal diary of visual impressions received while traveling in a foreign country. The basis of the project contains intimate experiences of the close connection that exists between people and the environment. A series of lonely characters with blurred shapes, reminiscent of wild animals, are alternated with randomly snatched fragments of cities and deserted roads. Time and geography are relative here.

Hard cover
150х200 mm.
80 pages
print run of 30 copies
Moscow 2021

paper: remake eco 120 g/m2

Photobook-guide from archival materials concerning the subject of aircraft hijackings in the USSR (1954–1991).
An attempt to explore the symbolic space of international borders and their imagined crossing by Soviet citizens who dreamed of leaving “the place of oppression” and raved about the “freedom” of the Western way of life. In order to achieve it, all one had to do was to get the plane to fly in the right direction.
My interest lies in how a closed society affects the political imagination of its inhabitants and, moreover, shapes the specific relationship between citizens and the state.

hard cover
150 x 190 mm.
112 pages
Print run of 60 copies,
Moscow, 2021

Produced with the support of the Fotobookmarket Dummy Award book dummy award, Moscow, 2021, where the dummy was shortlisted.

In this photobook I explore the theme of shelter. When I encounter a traumatizing experience, I often want to hide, to remain unseen, to step back from painful feelings. Nature has become a space of safety for me. I started to photograph myself and others, trying to find our place in it.

Working on this series, I unconsciously was hiding people's faces placing them into natural landscapes. That way they started to look like frozen sculptures camouflaged in the surrounding environment. These figures are so organically inscribed in its shelters - they may remain unnoticed.
My self-portraits, in turn, are filled with uneasiness and anxiety. Through them I work with my negative states which make me want to look for shelter.
The question that arises in this series: can you really find shelter from yourself?

soft cover
144х195 мм
48 pages
Print run of 15 copies
Moscow, 2022