“I hadn’t done any nudes until now,” says Toyber. “I have photographed a lot of girls in the sex industry, but I always had them dressed because they’re always exposed and I wanted to show their faces.” The Ukrainian artist and fashion photographer shot her fellow collaborators underwater to give the images a dreamy and tender quality. “It feels a little embryonic and evokes birth,” she says. The photos also symbolize a more global form of nurturing. “Water is a resource that we need to protect. Its future scarcity threatens our survival.”
Inverview and cover story for DOXY magazine →
Petite Mort Magazine →
Bondage Ballerinas interview in Petite Mort Magazine
Read More"GOTH BEACH EXHIBITION"
Opening 6/18/2021
A Post lock down 2021 all female exhibition of paintings,illustrations,photography,film and collage.All work embodies the combination of darkness and light figuratively and literally.
WHITE HOT MAGAZINE →
“A photographer and a model found themselves stuck together in their small New York apartment with not much but a Polaroid camera, a 35mm camera and film.”
Read MoreBONDAGE BALLERINAS PRESS →
WORKING FOR THE MAN IN HUFFPOST →
"It’s more than just tits and ass. Yana’s photos illustrate the more relaxed side of harlotry; free of any pimp slaps or police cuffs, as well a greater peace of mind from regular testing for STDs. Her work highlights the benefit of progressive policies, which can introduce dignity to an impure profession while doing a service to society by zapping flesh-peddling predators off the streets.”
Read MoreRecently in Ravelin magazine →
“Because I’m a woman myself, my ideas are also female centric and I’d like to explore how the world sees us.”
Read MoreWorking for the man in Playboy →
“Toyber's work is softer, even blurry or foggy sometimes.“In a way, I think I am meant to tell these stories in my creative style with what I see with my eyes and how I process these visions. It all feels very natural to me.”
Read MoreOPHELIA (I FEEL YA) Exhibition in Officemagazine →
'“A nun or a sex worker? An angel or a devil? So much that we cannot know is echoed across the lifeless eyes of that girl in the water. I like to think that she was simply absorbed by nature, that she didn’t really go mad at all, but was reclaimed by the old Danish gods and became a kind of creature of the earth, a mermaid, a dryad.”
Read MoreBallerinas in Juxtapoz →
“New York photographer Yana Toyber’s female-centric and socially controversial images vex the constructs of femininity and continue to break through barriers via diverse forms of symbolism, in bondage and the elements of materialistic confines, obvious and implied, that society, even still, holds to anti-feminism.”
Read MoreSacred on Melrose →
Presented by Músed and Other People's Children, "Femme Fatale" is a Los Angeles pop up including work from artists Remy Holwick, Yana Toyber, Leah Schrager, Yulia Nefedova, Annallisa Benston (Famous on Mars)
Read MoreI know you heard me on the radio Trrruuueeeee →
Interview with True Still Radio on Newark.fm
SALT images hanging in a luxury highrise lounge in Williamsburgh
10011 magazine →
Interview on myself and my work
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https://claudiaeng.gallery/online/2018/1/5/yana-toybers-life-aquatic-by-jill-di-donato
Solo exhibition July 14-July 24
Solo Exhibition at the The Rockaway beach surf blub with some procededs going to Surf riders foundation
My shoot of Amy Hood for Playboy magazine →
"Spicy, sweet, naughty, nice, sexy, strong: Bunnies come in all breeds. Shot by photographer and visual artist Yana Toyber, model-turned-bunny Amy Hood gives us pure and innocent, with a wild streak as she rolls around between the sheets."
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