Faces that dissolve into patches of colour, bodies that lose their outlines, lights that look painted rather than shot: these are the recurring ingredients in the work of Anastasiya Liohenkaya, a Belarusian photographer known on Instagram as @minoshikk. Over the years her profile has become a reference point for anyone looking for a photographic aesthetic suspended between dream and distortion, far from the classic canons of portraiture and photography.

Liohenkaya works indifferently in digital, analogue and polaroid, but the thread running through her research always stays the same: the manipulation of colour and light as an expressive tool. Her subjects, which can be people, objects or landscapes, become surfaces on which to experiment with texture and colour rather than subjects to document.

The result is a dreamlike, almost painterly imagery, where photography stops being testimony and becomes pure sensation. Anastasiya Liohenkaya’s shots don’t chase sharpness but atmosphere, and it’s precisely in that distance from reality that they find their most recognisable form, becoming a personal way of telling beauty through imperfection and colour.