MOSCOW.- Alexandra Catiere was born in
1978 in
Minsk, Belarus. She fell in love with photograhy while studying at Minsk
state
linguistic university. In 2003, under the influence of her art guru,
famous
soviet artist Yuriy Kuper, she moved to New York where she completed a
certificate program at the International Center of Photography. After
graduating
from ICP, she worked for a year in the studio of an internationally
renowned
photographer Irving Penn.