Bakhtiozina Uldus (www.uldus.com) (born 22 july 1986) is a Russian photo based artist, known as the first russian photographer in TED who fighting stereotypes through her photographs , and one of Top 100 Women of 2014 year according to BBC channel. Uldus was born in 1986 in USSR, Leningrad city (nowadays Russia, Saint-Petersburg) in a family with mixed religions and nationalities muslim tatar father and christian half Ukrainian mother. Uldus studies photography in London University of Arts, Saint Martins College. Bakhtiozina's first photo works was dedicated to the goal to break stereotypes around nationalities, genders and social issues. Uldus spent more than three years in England, 2 years in Asia. Those travels gave her opportunity to explore world and contemporary issues deeper and open her work to a bigger audience.

Nowadays Uldus working in her mother land, there she has opened her studio of visual arts. She works with young generation of russians, telling their stories in her art photography. Bakhtiozina's works are mixed of real stories and art vision, she creates photography with full respect to an aesthetic, focusing on balancing meaningful message and beauty. Bakhtiozina challenges gender and cultural norms with humor and magic, creating a fairy tale world for the viewer. Her works represent young generation of Russians today.

Despite of the modern technology level she prefers an analogue camera instead of digital to catch the nature of an object, show its deepest edges and soul beneath them. For that purposes she uses medium format camera 6x7 and 120 film Kodak and old 35 mm film Leica R3 camera. All around objects, costumes, make-up and outfit are produced by her own to fill the story behind each photograph with her vision and imagination. That's important part of her works to make them unique and unforgettable.

Uldus's work has been widely exhibited across the Europe (Berlin, London, Moscow, Saint-Petersburg) and Asia (Singapore, Hong-Kong and Indonesia). Uldus is also music videos producer and costume designer.

Her works were published in Aesthetica Magazine, Worbz Magazine, C-41 and few local magazines.