The Fairy Tale Not Yet Told

• Photographer
  Mari Saxon
• Technical Info
  Canon 6d Mark Ii, Lens Canon Ef24-70mm F/2.8l Ii Usm
• Photo Date
  2024

The sudden forced emigration wrenched me from calm and comfortable life of a middle-aged architect into the one of an exile in a new land, where I began constructing a private, fairy-tale world hidden from prying eyes, which only my two daughters have access to. The world where the boundaries of possibility dissolve, the feminine fantasyland sprung from the bedtime tales mothers weave for their children. In our fantasyland, nothing is permanent. Everything shifts, transforms. There is no fixed point, only the shimmering transitions between them. And no end here, even a happy one.

Mari Saxon (real name Maria Sakson), fine art photographer, architect. Mari was born in Moscow and lived there until 2022, when she moved to the USA. By education and profession, she is an architect with over 25 years of experience. In her youth, she bought a semi-professional camera and spent about 20 years as a mediocre amateur photographer in her free time. In 2022, she discovered fine art photography, and within the first year, she achieved significant success. In the new country, she left architecture and fully dedicated herself to photography, which became her profession and passion.