FINE ART PHOTOGRAPHER
Kristine Okuneva

Lately, I’ve been thinking a lot about how time changes the way we look at photographs. A simple family snapshot, an ordinary street scene, or an amateur portrait may have been taken without any artistic intention at all, yet decades later these same images suddenly begin to feel important, emotional, almost sacred in a way. When I look at black-and-white photographs from the late 19th or early 20th century, I often catch myself staring at the smallest details for much longer

In the spring of 2025, I spent several hours photographing dandelions in the studio. It started spontaneously - I noticed how quickly they disappear once the seeds fully open, and I became interested in capturing that very short moment before they fall apart completely. Unlike most flowers, dandelions don’t really wait for you. Everything depends on timing, weather and a bit of luck. Solar Dandelion Finding the right ones became part of the process itself. Some were already t