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Ekaterina Solovieva (born 1977) is Russian documentary photographer capturing rural a life in countries of the former Soviet Union and interested in folk holidays, religious customs and life of Tverian Karels.

Biography
Between 1995 and 2000 Solovieva studied journalism in Moscow State University. In 2006 she left Russia and moved to Germany after her husband. Since 2007 Ekaterina has worked for the Russian and foreign media. She started to take photos in 2008.

Ekaterina first traveled to Kolodozero, a lake town in northwestern Russia, in 2009. There she met an Orthodox priest Father Arkady, a “punk” Moscow seminary graduate. During the first visit Ekaterina used a digital camera to make a report for a church magazine and also shot one roll of film. "On the first roll there was nothing special – houses, people, cows wander in the rain… But there was some special atmosphere that fascinated me and I loved this place forever" told Ekaterina later in interview. That roll became a start of the long-term project about the Kolodozero and Father Arkady.

In 2011 Solovieva's photograph from Kargopol was shortlisted at Sony World Photography Awards 2011 and displayed at the World Photography festival.

In 2013 and 2014 took part in From White to Black sea photoexpedition where she shot a photoseries dedicated to the Crimea.

In April 2015 was the first exhibition on the project "The Earth´s circle. Kolodozero", which was still in progress at that time.

In 2017 a photostory from Kaliningrad was published in which Ekaterina tried to capture the remaining German and Prussian character of the city. Being interested in traditional rural life in Russia, Ekaterina took a series of photos about Bee Day folk holiday held in Sandovo, Tver oblast. Also in Tver oblast Solovieva interviews and captures pictures of Tver Karels, studying the history of this people.

In 2017 "The Earth´s circle. Kolodozero" project became a winner of the Photobookfest Dummy Award 2017 and a finalist in of the Fiebre Dummy Award 2017. The "The Earth´s circle. Kolodozero" book was published in 2018 with black and white photographs and comments from the author.

Publications

 * ПАЛОМНИКИ (Pilgrimage). Bad Weather Press, Spain, 2014.
 * "The Earth´s circle. Kolodozero". Schilt Publishing, Netherlands, 2018.