| Katya Apekina |
Meet Katya Apekina
Today we’d like to introduce you to Katya Apekina.
Every artist has a unique story. Can you briefly walk us through yours?
I’m a novelist, translator and screenwriter. I didn’t grow up wanting to be a writer. When I was in college, I was taking photo classes and setting up these complicated, very elaborate scenes–making my friends climb out of suitcases I found in the trash or covering their faces in pencil shavings. My friends were really patient! But then I took a writing workshop and discovered that I could achieve the same thing I was going for in my photos (to tell a story and create a certain mood), by just describing what was in my mind. Less equipment, less time in the darkroom. It seemed more immediate, from my mind to the page, and that was really appealing to me.