The Anastasia Project

The Anastasia Project is an ongoing durational photographic work begun in 2003. Every October, Anastasia returns for a new portrait made according to the same restrained visual protocol. With the setting kept almost unchanged, time becomes the project’s principal author, revealing the subtle physical and emotional transformations from childhood into adulthood. Each photograph functions as an individual document, yet the work exists fully in the accumulation of images—and in the invisible intervals between them. Developed through repetition, commitment, and collaboration, the series is simultaneously a photographic archive, a study of identity, and a long-term performance enacted by photographer and subject.