Bio
Anatoly Suzdaltsev is a visual artist and photographer. Born in 1980 in the Southern Urals, he is based in Almaty, Kazakhstan, and studies at Fotografika Academy.
His practice focuses on urban photography, vernacular archives, and the nonhuman. Anatoly explores spaces through both analogue photography and photogrammetry, artificial intelligence, 3D reconstruction, and other methods of computational photography. He is interested in the boundaries between memory and constructed reality, the human and the machine.
Anatoly creates visual narratives charged with tension, uncertainty, and enigma. He primarily works through the photobook format, creating works with multiple layers of meaning that invite readers to uncover hidden connections and interpretations.
His projects have been shown in exhibitions and festivals across Europe and Asia, including the Netherlands, Italy, Spain, Greece, Germany, Slovakia, Japan, Kazakhstan, Malaysia, and others. His zines and books are held in the collections of Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Zone of the Zine, NIZINA, and the Carlos Fontes Library.
Artist Statement
Photography is my way of researching and questioning what we accept as reality. Memory changes over time, fakes fill our environment, archives decay, people fill gaps with imagination. My work grows from these imperfections.
I like to begin with weird stories, lost places or found photographs or artifacts. Rather than treating them as historical evidence, I see them as starting points for new narratives. I combine photography with computational techniques such as photogrammetry, Gaussian splats, scanography and 3D reconstruction to create ambiguous narratives and blur the boundary between reality and possible worlds.
The photobook is my primary medium because it allows me to develop narratives over many pages: a photobook gives space for doubt, contradictions and multiple readings. I also follow Plato’s concept of the ‘poet as a medium’, and I believe that the Universe communicates with Humanity through artists.
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Zines and Books:
2026 Book ‘Delicious & Healthy Memories», self-published
2025 Book ‘Total Theater’, self-published
2024 Zine ‘On Orbite’ (Visual Diary), self-published
2023 Zine ‘Night on Earth’, self-published
Collections: Zone of the Zine, Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, NIZINA, Carlos Fontes library
Awards:
2026 Finalist 10th Singapore International Photography Festival, Singapore
2026 Shortlist OFF LIBRIS, Slovakia
2025 Honorable mention at Gomma get Published
2025 Photobook Silver TIFA, Tokyo
2025 Photobook Silver Px3, Paris
2025 Photobook Bronze BIFA
2025 Shortlist OFF LIBRIS, Slovakia
2024, 2025, 2026 Bronze and Honorable mentions at FotoSlovo Award
2024 2d ranked URBAN Book & Zine Award, Italy
2024 BIFA Winner — Night Photography, Hungary
2024 Special Mention ‘Tokyo International Foto Awards’, Japan
2024 Finalist ‘Kuala Lumpur International Photoawards’, Malaysia
2024 Honorable Mention ‘Monochrome Photography Awards’
2024 Analog Sparks Winner — Bronze
2023, 2024, 2025 Special mentions ‘Urbanautica Institute Awards’
2023 Finalist ‘Gomma Grant’
2023 LensCulture Editors’ Picks ‘B&W Photography Awards’
Exhibitions:
2025 Group photobook exhibition ‘Encontros da Imagem’, Portugal;
2025 Group photobook exhibition OFF LIBRIS, Slovakia
2025 Group exhibition at ‘GAKA gallery’, Kazakhstan
2024 Group exhibition ‘Kuala Lumpur International Photoawards’, Malaysia
2024 Personal exhibition ‘Total Theater’ at ‘Dialogues’ festival, Kazakhstan
2024 Group exhibition ‘Humans Landscapes’, Loosenart, Italy
2024 Group exhibition ‘Short cut Festival’, Serbia
2024 Group exhibition ‘Rotterdam Photo Festival – Imagine’
2024 Group exhibition ‘2nd B&W Athens Photography Festival’
2024 Group exhibition ‘Night on earth’ at ‘Dom36’, Kazakhstan
2023 Group exhibition ‘Night Photography’ at ‘Blank Wall Gallery’, Greece
Publications:
2026 ArtDoc, ‘The Inner Lens — Inner Worlds’
2026 Eastern Europe Landscape Book, Soft Publisher
2026 komplex KULTURMAGAZIN #52
2026, 2023 Dodho online
2025 Bibin Magazine, #4
2025 Musee Magazine, Flash Fiction
2025 Urbanvoid, vol.3
2025, 2024 F-Stop Magazine #124, #127, #128, #130
2024 Float Photo Magazine. ‘Imperfect Poetry’
2024 Al-Tiba9 Art Magazine #15
Education:
2022-2026 Art & Documental Photography, Academy ‘Fotografika’
1997-2002 Electronic Design, South Ural State University.