How photographer Elizaveta Porodina finds the beauty in her nightmares
Russian photographer Elizaveta Porodina, based in Munich since age 12, has built a two-decade career in fashion photography while pursuing a parallel artistic vision rooted in her childhood recurring dream of a violet hillside inhabited by mutated beings and purple-eyed figures. Her recognizable style merges beauty with deliberate horror across five consistent visual pillars, drawing influence from female surrealist painters including Méret Oppenheim, Leonora Carrington, Dora Maar, and Remedios Varo. Having photographed major celebrities including Zendaya, Ariana Grande, and Brad Pitt, Porodina has now compiled her most transcendent dreamscape projects in a new monograph, Found Dreams, published by Prestel in October 2026, with a foreword by Grande. The interview explores her psychology background, her artistic philosophy bridging dreams and nightmares, and the conceptual underpinnings of her psychedelic, surrealist-inflected photographic practice.
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