Marina Doсtorova (b. 1980) is a documentary photographer from St. Petersburg. Her projects focus on human stories and social phenomena. In 2014, she completed Sergey Maximishin’s course “The Photographer as a Storyteller” at the “Tseh” School. She is the author of the project “The Happiest Time “ about rave culture in St. Petersburg in the second half of the 2010s. In 2021, she worked on a story for “Novaya Gazeta” about a shelter for stray animals “Ar Idardo ” in Georgia.

Awards & Exhibitions 

• 2019 OFF Bratislava Festival, group exhibition “Between”, Bratislava, Slovakia   
  
• 2019 Portfolio Review Winner, PiterFotoFest Festival, Korobitsyno, Leningrad Region  
•  2018 Group exhibition “Between, ” Academy of Documentary Photography and Photojournalism “Fotografika”, St. Petersburg 

Scholarship 

• 2021 Yuri Kozyrev’s workshop, St. Petersburg 
  
• 2019 Elena Anosova’s workshop, St. Petersburg
  
• 2018 Yuri Kozyrev’s workshop, St. Petersburg
  

Education 

• 2023/24: School of Modern Photography “Docdocdoc”, Post-Documentary Photography course, St. Petersburg 
• 2020/21 School of Modern Photography “Docdocdoc”, Documentary Photography and Photojournalism course, St. Petersburg 
• 2017/18 Academy Documentary Photography and Photojournalism Fotografika, St.Petersburg
• 2013/14 School of Photojournalism “Tsekh”, “The Photographer as a Storyteller” course by Sergey Maximishin, St. Petersburg
  
• 1997/2002 Nevsky Institute of Language and Culture, St. Petersburg

Publications

• Takie dela: takiedela.ru/2025/03/ty-moya-sobaka/
• Novaya Gazeta: novayagazeta.ru/articles/2021/09/27/moi-drug-berezina
• RTVI: rtvi.com/special/russian-reiv/
• Bird in Flight: birdinflight.com/ru/vdohnovenie/fotoproect/20 181 003-rave.html