Tania Shcheglova (Synchrotania) "Innerland: Portrait of Lesia Tsiutsiak"
Tania Shcheglova (Synchrotania) "IInnerland: Portrait of Lesia Tsiutsiak" 2025
Medium Format Film photography
Dimensions: 12 x 15 inches
Limited Edition of 5
Includes a signed certificate of authenticity
Tania Shcheglova (b. 1989) is a Ukrainian fine art photographer and installation artist working under the name Synchrotania. Formerly part of the artist duo Synchrodogs (2008-2023), she began her independent practice in 2023.
Her work explores the relationship between inner consciousness and the natural world through Staged Documentary photography and performative imagery. She is the founder of the ongoing project Innerland, a global photographic archive of creative minds that pioneers the concept of Inner World Portraiture.
In 2025, Shcheglova received the ArtPrize Juried Award (Grand Rapids), one of the leading international contemporary art prizes. She was a resident at the Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture (2024) and participated in the AFAA residency (2023).
Her work has been internationally exhibited and recognized by major photography platforms and institutions, including being shortlisted for the Sony World Alpha Female Award (2026) and Photo Vogue (2025), and named a finalist for the Kamira Award (2025) and the IPFA Award (2026).
Throughout her career, her work has been exhibited at the Dallas Contemporary Museum, the Benaki Museum in Athens, the PinchukArtCentre, Kyiv, the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, Guy Hepner Gallery in New York, the Palais de Tokyo in Paris, and the Annenberg Space for Photography in Los Angeles.
Artist Statement:
"In a cultural climate saturated with narratives of collapse, trauma, and fragmentation, this body of work positions itself as a counter-gesture: an invocation of luminosity, a refusal of cynicism. While much of contemporary art focuses on pain or conflict, this photo moves in the opposite direction - toward wholeness, kindness, and spiritual presence.
It is a visual manifesto of optimism, purity, and faith in the good: a gentle reminder that love is real, beauty exists, and we can always choose light over darkness." - Synchrotania