Artist Statement
Irina Luma is a Ukrainian photographer based in France. Her practice explores memory, identity, femininity and emotional states through botanical forms, the female figure and still life.
Working with movement, blur, reflections, layering and visual fragmentation, she moves away from literal representation, allowing familiar forms to shift between recognition and abstraction.
Flowers and the female figure recur throughout her work as a visual language for presence, transformation, vulnerability and memory. Her photographs exist between observation and sensation, where the image becomes not only a representation of the visible, but a way of expressing inner experience.
Biography
Irina Luma is a Ukrainian photographer based in France.
Her practice focuses on conceptual, botanical and still-life photography. Since 2023, she has developed several photographic series, including Not a Portrait — Beyond the Visible, Meeting, Impression and Under the Skin.
Her photographs have been presented in exhibitions and photographic projects in France, Germany, Switzerland and the United Kingdom, and featured in international photography publications.
Her practice focuses on conceptual, botanical and still-life photography. Since 2023, she has developed several photographic series, including Not a Portrait — Beyond the Visible, Meeting, Impression and Under the Skin.
Her photographs have been presented in exhibitions and photographic projects in France, Germany, Switzerland and the United Kingdom, and featured in international photography publications.
exhibitions
2026 Exposition Du Club Photo Sauveterre de Guyenne, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France
2026 Supernova 5 Düsseldorf, Allemagne
2026 Surrealism Exhibition The Glasgow Gallery Of Photography Glasgow, Royaume-Uni
2025 Les Arbres En Fête Saint-Ferme, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France
2025 Exposition Photo Interclubs Rauzan, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France
2025 Supernova 4 Düsseldorf, Allemagne
2025 Exposition Collective – Château La Grave Béchade Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France
2025 Supernova 3 Dortmund, Allemagne
2025 Abstract Exhibition Glasgow, Scotland, Royaume-Uni
2024 Supernova 2 Exhibition Dortmund, Allemagne
2024 Ich Will Die Alte Zeit Zurück Dortmund, Allemagne
2024 Stage Gallery Open Call Exhibition Zürich, Suisse
2024 Women's Perspective Zürich, Suisse
2024 Supernova «Nouvelle Vie» Aachen, Allemagne
AWARDS & RECOGNITION
2026 Artmajeur, Weekly Selection, The Photographer’s Gaze
2024 Pink Lady Food Photographer Of The Year 2024, Shortlisted (Errazuriz Wine Photographer Of The Year – Places) London, Royaume-Uni
2024 Art Collide – Finalist, États-Unis