ART DIRECTION & PHOTOGRAPHY

Katerina

Volkovaat golden hour

I make travel & portrait work for people and brands that would rather feel like a place than sell one. A hundred quiet frames, one warm light, and a story that reads slow.

SELECTED CLIENTS & PRESS
KinfolkCerealFJORDAesopMonocle
Photography
01 / 12
Steppe at Golden Hour
Mongolia — 24 frames, spring 2024
THE PORTFOLIO — 2024 / 2026

Latest from the field

A rolling edit of travel & portrait commissions — shot on location, graded warm, left to breathe.

All 48 frames
Travel
FEATURED
The Long Road North
Kazakh steppe — 32 frames, autumn 2025
View series
Portraits
Amina, in Amber
Almaty studio — 2025
Travel
Green Hills, Late June
Trans-Ili Alatau — 2025
Photography
Salt & Silver
Aral basin — 2024
Art direction
Dust & Distance
Gobi crossing — 2024
PROOF — WHAT CLIENTS SAY

In their words

120+
shoots delivered
18
countries on file
94%
book again
TRAVEL CAMPAIGN · AESOP
Katerina saw the picture before we did. She flew into the steppe with a hundred ideas and came back with the one frame the whole campaign now hangs on — every image felt like the trip had already started.
DA
Daniar Amanov
Creative Director, Fjord Studio
She works quiet and fast. Two days on location and we had a year of content, all of it warm.
LR
Lena Rustemova
Brand Lead, Kinfolk
The light in her portraits does the talking. Our founder has never looked more like himself.
YT
Yuki Tanaka
Founder, Cereal Mag
Deadlines, weather, borders — nothing rattled her. The edit landed early and over the brief.
SM
Sofia Marlow
Producer, Monocle