Aliona Kardash

Teaching areas: Int. Class – Photo Project

Aliona Kardash (born 1990) is a documentary photographer from Siberia who lives in Hamburg. She is a member of the DOCKS collective and is represented by the agency laif.

Aliona studied journalism at Tomsk State University in Russia, graduating with a bachelor’s degree. In 2017 she studied photography in the International Class at Hochschule Hannover. Since 2019 she has been a master’s student at Fachhochschule Dortmund. In 2022 she received the stern scholarship and worked for a year as a photojournalist for stern magazine.

In her photographic work she often draws on her own biography, searching personal stories for universal patterns. She explores cultural and national identity, people’s connection to their past and shared roots.