Ekaterina Kruchkova

Ekaterina Kruchkova (born September 14, 1971 in Russia), is a photographer and journalist.

Biography
Ekaterina Kruchkova started her career as a photographer and journalist in 2006. Working for several Russian magazines she travelled in France, Germany, Belgium and Holland to write articles about special restaurants, houses and new trends. In this period she specialized in photographing exteriors and interiors of buildings. Later, fed by her artistic side, she broadened here photographic interests to the fields of studio, compositions and nature. Currently she is active in all the above fields and has opened her own photo studio - STUDIO EKATERINA - in 2012.

Education

 * 2006
 * Private lessons in art photography by M. Soerov
 * Course photo journalism in EFET private school (Paris, France)
 * Course portrait photography and Photoshop by M. Jean Claude Ayrault of l'atelier photo de la MJC (Rambouillet, France)
 * Stages photography at Union régionale photographique de Ile-de-France
 * 2002 Private lessons of drawing and painting by E. Sangin
 * 2001 Private Course Beauty - building by Jean Pierre Fleurimon (Paris, France)

Work experience

 * 2010
 * Opening of Art Photo studio 'Ekaterina' in Essen, Belgium
 * 2009
 * Art project ‘Theatre of one Actress’, with Marina Palei, published in ‘Mecenat and World, No 41-44’, International Magazine on Literary, Artistic and Cultural Topics
 * Photographer for the Embassy of Azerbaijan, Den Haag, The Netherlands
 * 2008
 * Exhibition PHOTEX 2008 (EPO, Den Haag, The Netherlands)
 * Cover picture on novel ‘Clemens’ by Marina Palei, published in Moscow by Publishing house ‘Znamij’ (5000 copies)
 * 2007
 * Exhibition NORTH meets EAST meets WEST (EPO, Den Haag, The Netherlands)
 * Exhibition PHOTEX 2007 (EPO, Den Haag, The Netherlands)
 * Free lance photographer and journalist for Russian Magazines:
 * World and House
 * Restaurant Register
 * Modern House
 * 2006
 * Photo reportage "Games in the Garden" in international magazine World and House (Russia)
 * Exhibition PHOTEX 2006 (EPO, Den Haag, The Netherlands)
 * 2005
 * Exhibition Modern Art (Palais du Roi de Rome, France)


 * 2003
 * Developing/experimenting own style in painting and drawing

Memberships

 * Member of Fédération Photographique de France FRF

Websites

 * Official homepage