Bio + artistic vision

About

I’m a visual artist and world-builder. Still or moving, personal or commercial, every image I make gets my full vision.

A curly-haired man in glasses sits on a stool among stacks of film cans, between two old projectors.

Based in Tbilisi, I work as a photographer and director and travel the world for assignments and personal projects. I graduated from the Spéos Paris Photographic Institute in 2012.

Figures in spiky black masks under blue light; one points up as a gloved hand reaches down to him.

My work has two components: punk and perfectionism. I love messed-up stuff. But it has to be visually impeccable messed-up stuff.

An old man in a long dark coat stands in thick fog under a bright light, between stacks of books.

A woman in a black hat stands behind a table of glowing lamps and bottles, with plants on shelves behind her.

A pale man in a ruffled collar stands in a misty greenhouse, a borzoi on a lead at his side.

A man in a pointed cardboard mask balances on one leg among white wheels, and crouches on a box in close-up.

Every work of visual art wants to grab your attention. To do that, an image, moving or still, has to make you ask questions. Like:
WTF is going on!

My personal projects have been shown in galleries in Paris, London, Tbilisi, Moscow, Sydney, Istanbul and Tokyo.

In 2022 I founded Midlibrary.io, a library of how image-generation models read artistic styles.

A woman in an embroidered shawl looks at a framed portrait hung among potted plants at an exhibition.

A warrior with a long blade faces a giant mechanical dragon head among ruined towers in a sandstorm.

I build worlds that don’t exist →

An elderly man stands among old studio spotlights in a misty courtyard, seen through open glass doors.

A man in a suit stands between small fires in a dark forest, beside a Fashion Film Festival Istanbul selection laurel.

I shoot hypnotising music and fashion short films full of weird characters.

A pregnant woman wears torn sheer tights stretched over balloons, in black and white.

A man in a mustard suit, a wicker basket over his head, stands on rail tracks carrying more baskets.

A man in a wine-stained T-shirt poses like a saint, with a tubing halo, a red hose, a steel pole and glass pipettes.

I design characters and build masks →

In black and white, a figure in a mask of horns, antlers and dry grass pushes through a spotted sheet, holding reeds.

A man in a powdered wig sings from sheet music as a wolf plays guitar among brass instruments and flying pages.

A woman in a long black dress stands beside giant rusted machinery in a vast factory hall.

Working from Tbilisi, Georgia, my team and I have a huge range of natural and indoor locations within reach, affordable infrastructure and fairly low production costs.

A man in glasses sits on a stool in a projection room full of film cans, an old TV and tangled film.

My team and I are looking to work with fellow artists: musicians, theatre and film directors, mask designers and more.
Our domains: photography, cinematography, production design, character and mask design.
Want to make cool messed-up stuff together? andrei@ckovalev.com