Film and Digital photography

Olya’s photography journey started in New York city, when she worked as a graphic designer in Fashion industry. Inspired by beauty and creativity, she picked up her first DSLR. Since then, she wanted to document everything.

As she graduated from New York Institute of Photography, she moved to Montreal, a city known for its arts and culture, where photography is a big part of the equasion.

Olya was lucky to have been immersed in everything Montreal had to offer from popular food festivals - La Poutine week and Le Burger week to numerous industry events, workshops, lectures to being a movie set photographer all while discovering diversity and creativity of Montreal.

Having grown up Jewish in the Soviet Union, immigrated to the United States at 17 y.o. and moved around North America multiple times, the themes of belonging, identity and cultural roots are especially important to her.

Olya is currently living and working in Vancouver, BC.