Benita Suchodrev was born in the former USSR and immigrated to the United States where she received her Bachelor’s degree in Liberal Arts with a focus on Art History continuing to a Master of Arts in English Literature, graduating with high honors. In 2008 Benita relocated to Berlin and began an extensive documentation of the cosmopolitan city’s multifaceted art scene while working on diverse photographic projects.
Her photographs have been published in the books “Of Lions and Lambs” (Kehrer 2019), “48 Hours Blackpool” (Kehrer 2018), “Nachtleben Berlin: 1974 bis heute” (Metrolit 2013) and “Berlin Now” (teNeues 2009) and have been covered by various television, radio and print media including Arte, The guardian, Zeit Online, ARD, Rbb24 Kulturradio, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Amica Italy, Art, Mare Magazine, Stern.de, Berliner Zeitung, Die Tageszeitung, Tagesspiegel, Neues Deutschland, MIND China, The Moscow Times, among others. Her awarded portrait and documentary works have been exhibited in solo and group shows nationally and internationally and are part of stately and private Collections. Benita is a member of the photographer’s agency FOCUS. She lives and works in Berlin.
“My work is concerned primarily with the human subject. I am attracted to the poetic and the bizarre, the bold and the vulnerable, with little interest for strict documentation or sensation. I work intuitively with great regard for authenticity, spontaneity and the transitional moment; that elusive split of a second between what has passed, what is to come and the traces it leaves behind. The drama and ambiguity of human expression and gesture in that transitional moment is what fascinates me the most.”