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AES+F is a group of four Russian-born artists: Tatiana Arzamasova, Lev Evzovich, Evgeny Svyatsky, and Vladimir Fridkes. The four create a concept, discuss the story they want to illuminate and decide the best way to proceed. The group works collaboratively in photography, video, installation, mixed media works, or in combinations of the three mediums.

AES+F explore provocative subjects such as the seduction of increasingly younger children by contemporary mass media, western perceptions of Islamic nations and aggression and the attempt to sanitize war through news reporting and video games. The title of their show "ACTION HALF LIFE", is the name of an existing computer game and the images in their show "Last Riot" have been transformed by the technologies and materials into an artificial environment or "fantasy landscape of the new epos'. Their images are the result of painstaking digital manipulation, the staging of hundreds of young models and actors and a regard for the composition of classical paintings and sculpture.

AES+F are in the public collections of the Center for Contemporary Photography in Paris, France, the State Museum in St. Petersberg, Russia and Moscow Museum of Contemporary Art in Moscow, Russia.