
Nika Oksenchuk is a photographer born in St. Petersburg, Russia. She graduated with a degree in Chemistry and Teaching Methods in 2014 and later studied photography at the Academy of Documentary Photography and Photojournalism Fotografika in St. Petersburg. Her work focuses on documentary series and personal projects, with a particular interest in portraiture, family archives, memory, intimacy, and the rituals of everyday life. Her ongoing project Bathing / Парение examines the public bath as a space of bodily vulnerability, observation, and transformation, combining documentary photography with cyanotype printing. She is currently based in Limassol, Cyprus.
Publications
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Awards
2026 Foto Slovo 2026, honorable mention
2021 Fotobookmarketdummyaward_2021 finalist
2021 Young photographers of Russia, finalist
Group exhibitions
2021 Fotobookmarketdummyaward_2021 WINZAVOD Contemporary Art Center, artist-run space Soyuzpechat.moscow, Moscow, Russia
2021 “Family portrait”, Fotografika, Saint-Petersburg, Russia
2021 Young photographers of Russia, Kaluga, Russia
2021 “Strength of materials”, Livlyandskaya 3, St. Petersburg, Russia
Education
2019 — 2021 Academy documentary photography and photojournalism Fotografika, St.Petersburg, Russia
2014 — 2017 Postgraduate studies, Herzen State Pedagogical University of Russia
2009 — 2014 Herzen State Pedagogical University of Russia