Alexander Khokhlov

Alexander Khokhlov is a photographer based in Moscow. He is known for his portraits where he mixes face-art and diferent textures to create an eye-tricking work.

His interest in photography started in 2007, but in 2008 was the year when everything changed and he discovered fashion and beauty photography. At this time he was studying courses and master classes, and he came  with his own ideas and he organized his firsts photoshoots.

In 2012 he created an exposition named Weird Beauty where all the pictures were photos of a model’s face painted in different ways but always in white and black. The photo Silhouette from Weird Beauty was chosen as the promo image of the 11th Dubai Film Festival.

And in 2013 he created 2D or not 2D with the collaboration of the make-up artist and also his wife, Valeriya Kutsan. This exposition transforms models into 2D paintings creating a really amazing efects where sometimes you can’t tell if it’s 2D or not 2D.

They also made some personification make-up. The result of the transformation into Marge Simpson made by Alexander and Veronica in 2014 was scary but attracting - the YouTube backstage video got more than 1,500 000 views and is still popular.

This time Alexander and Veronica are working on the project called Shapes and illusions. The new series continue author's challenge to transform people into different forms. This project combines the techniques of face-art, photography and decoration.