GIRLS ON FILM →

“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.”

"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. 

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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.”

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Working 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.”

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OPHELIA 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.”

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Ballerinas 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.”

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SACRED IN WHITEHOT MAGAZINE →

Taken over the course of a year at different island locations, Yana Toyber's recent photographs are celebrations of femininity. In her own words, "there is a strong connection between women and water. In women and water there is the ability to birth new life." However precise her subject-matter, there's an open-endedness to the overaching significance of her work. Mingling commercial photography with landscapes and portraiture, Toyber is sensitive to the inveterate difficulty of photographing nature in process. Her images feel spontaneous, otherworldly. Here are some favorites. WM  

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