Ideas change everything

Portraits that transform people into whatever they want to be

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Uldus Bakhtiozina |

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• April 2017

With her gorgeous, haunting photographs, artist Uldus Bakhtiozina documents dreams, working with daily life as she imagines it could be. She creates everything in her work by hand -- from costumes to stages -- without digital manipulation, bringing us images from the land of escapism, where anyone can become something else.

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With her gorgeous, haunting photographs, artist Uldus Bakhtiozina documents dreams, working with daily life as she imagines it could be. She creates everything in her work by hand -- from costumes to stages -- without digital manipulation, bringing us images from the land of escapism, where anyone can become something else.

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About the speaker

Uldus Bakhtiozina

Artist, visionary

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TED Fellow Uldus Bakhtiozina creates photo stories and video installations that challenge stereotypes and create diversity, involving all types of people from fashion models to ordinary people. She presents the world with humor and thoughtfulness.

This talk was presented at an official TED conference.

Read our curation guidelines.

Visit Uldus Bakhtiozina's homepage.

Follow Uldus Bakhtiozina on Instagram.

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