Samara is a photographer, designer, and digital illustrator, best known for her fine art and documentary street photography. With over 2 decades of experience, she has photographed across 13 European countries and throughout the USA, and is now based in Akron, Ohio.
As a master of visual storytelling with an eye for unique compositions, Samara's work is carefully composed to evoke profound emotional responses, capturing the beauty, solitude, struggle, joy, humor, or pain of her subjects. She possesses a rare ability to recognize and elevate everyday moments and capture the beauty of what we tend to overlook. Infused with insightful social commentary and a deep appreciation for raw authenticity, her photography is both compelling and captivating. She's always in search of those hidden designs that are ever shifting and transforming around us, ones that perfectly align then are gone in the next breath.
DESIGN
Samara's portfolio also showcases her unique blend of graphic design and photo illustrations that focus on conceptual, social-critical, religious, and political themes. As a powerful voice for the LGBTQ community, BIPOC, and the unhoused, she is unafraid of holding space for the ambiguity of life and reflecting on difficult human experiences.