My name is Oksana Zhila, I am a photographer and visual artist from Finland.

I love the art of photography with all my heart and I can’t spend a day without photography.  

I get inspiration from great artists and photographers, nature and the lines of the human body.

In my work I often use multiple exposures, various glasses, reflectors and mirrors. That way even a banal, at first sight, picture becomes different and more interesting during the work.  That process is fascinating and very similar to life… every event leaves its mark on you and you cease to be the same!

For me, photography is a method of getting out of reality into the world of art and beauty!!!   

Education: 

• 2025-2026 — Zhukova Photoschool
• 2024 — Course “Author’s photography ’E. Sukhoveeva, V. Khmel photoschool  
• 2024 —Course of photography, Kymenlaakson Opisto, Finland 
• 2024 —Course ’Art photography and contemporary art’ Zhukova Photoshcool 
• 2022 — online course ’Life-style photography’ Denis Persenen 
• 2020 — Elena Karneeva`s online photoschool 
• 2018-2019 — School of visual arts ’Sova ’, Saint-Petersburg 
• 2000 — 2006  — Saint-Peterburg’s Medical State University

Awards:

• KLPA 2025 Autoportrait Experimental Self-Portraiture — Finalist  
• Prix de la Photographie, Paris 2025 HM Self-Portrait Category
• Prix de la Photographie, Paris 2025 HM  Fine Art Category
• Pure Street Photography Awards 2025 Semi Finalists
• Lensculture Editorpicks Portrait 2025
• TIFA 2025 Honorable Mention Self-Portrait Category
• 1839 Silver  Contest 2025 Photographer of the Year Contest Category Conceptual
• MonoVisions Awards 2025  Nomination in Portrait (Single) Honorable Mention in portrait category
• Honorable Mention in the Portrait & Human category of the Türkiye Mobile Photo Awards 2025.
• Turkiye Mobile Photo Awards 2025 Honorable Mention in the Portrait & Human category
• TIFA 2024 Honorable Mention  Fine Art-Portrait Category
• EPEX Photo Awards 2024 Bronze in free subject category
• EPEX Photo Awards 2024 Honorable Mention in free subject category
• EPEX Photo Awards 2024 Honorable Mention in Portrait category   

Exhibitions:

• Trieste Photo Day 6-30.9.2025 Trieste Airport
• Imagination New eyes 29.11-2.12.2024, Milan, Italy
• Competa photodays 4-6.11.2024, Malaga, Spain
• 3rd Biennale of Black and White Photography 13-18.08.2024,Saint-Petersburg, Russia
• SiderAll’s Virtual Art exhibition ’Art for life’, Helsinki, Finland 06.2024