Anna Tymofieieva is a photographer whose practice centres on portraiture, introspection and the natural world. She is drawn to photography’s cinematic atmosphere, approaching the image as theatre and engaging with people in the frame as director, observer and passerby. Through chiaroscuro (an Italian art term literally translating to "light-dark"), off-screen suggestion and shifts within transitional spaces, her works invite contemplation and cultivate empathy, awe, grief and hope. In Archipelago, she tries to capture the “sacred flickers” within bodies, using street light, gesture and environment to create cinematic images where mood, rhythm and perception shape encounters between the human and the divine.