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When the photograph was invented in Toledo the Indians came into town and sat for their portraits. It was the only interesting thing the white man had come up with in all these years.
Guy Davenport

With her background in journalism, Svetlana Makovetskaya started her professional career in photography in 1995. The same year Vladivostok saw her first personal art show. Since 1997, Ms. Makovetskaya's work has been exhibited in Japan at various times, and in 1999 her participation in the Russian national art event Cultural Heroes of the 21st Century organized by the Marat Guelman's Gallery, was enthusiastically received by critics. In 1999 she also took part in the annual International Moscow Festival of Professional Photography InterPhoto'99 with her conceptual exhibit A Woman Through the Woman's Eyes. Svetlana Makovetskaya is the member of the Russian Union of Creative Photographers, contributing to a number of Russian and international publications.

Svetlana Makovetskaya's playing with "past histories" is sometimes serious and sometimes ironic or grotesque... Photographing her contemporaries, she seems to turn on her "time machine", first in her inner artistic space, then dressing her models in period clothes... Her relations with the classic are free of canonizing patterns, and the recognizability of her images stems more from visual arts and, in part, from moving pictures. ...This approach is intentionally devoid of historicism and grows solely from her own sensual perception of a period, an era, a model and, finally, an object seen, that drapes the intrigue of the plot development around itself... At the photographs by Svetlana Makovetskaya we see the droplets of our history within ourselves.
Marina Kulikova,
Art Critic.

Hours of lights streaming through a pinhole onto pewter soaked asphalt into lavender in mechanical imitation of light focussed on a retina by the lens of an eye.
Guy Davenport