Katya Pronin Born in Leningrad, Russia in 1977, I came to the United States as a baby during the cold war. I graduated Bard College in 1999 with a B.A. in Art History and in 2002 from Hunter with an M.A. in Teaching English as a Second Language. My experiences in the public school system and my summer travels permitted me to explore new environments with a 35mm Nikon I bought from a retired journalist. While I assisted photographers and learned to print and work in a studio, I began developing my own stories. I enrolled in and completed the Documentary and Photojournalism program at the International Center of Photography in June 2008. Currently I freelance for the daily, AM New York, as well as photograph New York based music groups for their promotional use and at various venues, large and small. Some of these images have been published in Next Magazine, Beyond Race Magazine and Signal to Noise. My work has been most recently exhibited at the Pingyao International Photography Festival in China. My main aim regardless of the subject is to find new ways of telling a story, terribly simple, of simply people I have the strange opportunity to encounter only because I have a camera and a recorder, and I'll sit through the chore of their routines and surprises. For them chores and for me a document that folds into the compendium of all stories.
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