Nadja Shkirat

Photographer

Nadja Shkirat is a professional photographer, visual artist and educator from Germany. She studied art education at the University of Leipzig, Germany and continued her artistic education in photography at the Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design Halle (Saale), Germany. She studied photography at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design Jerusalem, Israel to intensify her artistic research and knowledge. She also worked as a photography lecturer at the Dar Al-Kalima University of Arts and Culture. Currently she is working as a photographer and visual artist.  Her visual art presents a surreal, vivid and vibrant imagery. Mainly focussing on analog photography and digital art, she creates bright and colourful photographs mixing the grotesque with the beautiful. To her, photographs are more than just a copy of something, they are an entrance to a world and a story that she is creating with her own eyes. Commenting on ideals of beauty, sexuality and consumerism, Nadja Shkirat´s visualises and raises questions about ideology, aesthetics and social behaviours.