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Daria Gdeto is a London-based visual artist from Saint - Peterburg. She has worked with analogue photography since 2009, building her practice largely through self-directed learning and long-term personal projects.

Her practice is informed by a background in psychology and explores perception, relational experience, and transitional states through slow, process-oriented image making.

Alongside photography, her work incorporates Polaroids, emulsion lifts, and reworked archival material.
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Daria Gdeto
London, UK

Education

MSc in Psychology
London Metropolitan University, 2022

Studied Photography at Fotografika Academy, 2024



Exhibitions

Group Exhibitions

2023 — IIconic Photo Show Group Exhibition, Paris, France
2023 — IIconic Photo Show Group Exhibition, Milan, Italy
2022 — Iconic Photo Show Group Exhibition, Milan, Italy
2018— Group Exhibition, Mansarda Hall, Saint Petersburg, Russia



Publications

PhotoVogue



Artist Statement

Photography for me is not a way of documenting reality, but a way of entering into relation with it. I am interested in the instability of perception — the distance between experience, memory, and image — and in the ways photography alters what it attempts to preserve.

Working primarily with analogue photography and instant film, I approach image-making as a slow and process-oriented practice shaped by attention, uncertainty, and trust. The delay inherent to film changes the experience of looking: the image remains unseen for some time, existing first as expectation, projection, memory, or doubt. I am interested in this space before visibility, where control becomes partial and perception remains unstable.

My practice moves between documentary observation and constructed intimacy. I often work through closeness, repetition, and duration, allowing the process itself to shape the image. Portraiture, for me, is less about representation than about the experience of being looked at and looking back. I am interested in vulnerability as a shared condition between photographer and subject — the mutual uncertainty of how someone will be seen, translated, or recognized through an image.

Influenced by a background in psychology, I think about photography as a mediated form of attention: a way of observing, processing, and reflecting experience rather than capturing objective truth. Recurring themes in my work include transitional states, identity, personal archives, memory, and the tension between presence and transformation.

Alongside analogue photography, my practice incorporates Polaroids, emulsion lifts, and the reworking of archival material.