“For some reason, as a society we sanctify youth.
You may say that this project for me is an attempt to do the same.
For me, each of my heroines is a goddess, each of their gestures is sanctified.
Kristina Rozhkova
I met my models forGirlsby chance, while out on a walk in my hometown this summer.
I sought to find the my own so-called adult experiences reflected in the world of childlike simplicity and beauty.
I do not fixate on the erotic here.
For me, these photos are not about eroticism for eroticisms sake, or even about eroticism at all.
Childhood and blissfulness converge with aggressive sexuality and disquiet.
These themes are very present in my previous work as well.
There is conflict between power and weakness, sensuality and aggression.
All this has converged in the images of my Girls who are always full of contradictions.
The beauty and the essence of waifishness or girlhood for me is in its transience…”
