Synchrotania
Ukraine
Biography
Tania Shcheglova is an artist from Ukraine that has been working as part of Synchrodogs art collective since 2008. In 2023 she started conducting a solo art career in fine art photography and installation art, building a global photographic archive of creative minds and pioneering the concept of Inner World Portraiture.
In 2025 she became winner of ArtPrize Juried Award in Grand Rapids, attended Skowhegan art residency in 2024, and was selected for AFAA residency in 2023. Her Innerland project was one of finalist of IPFA 2026 Award, Shortlisted for Sony World Alpha Female Award in 2026, finalists of Kamira Award in 2025, was selected as Editors Picks by The Guardian head of Photography Fiona Shields for the Independent Photographer competition and exhibited at main program of European Month of Photography in Berlin in 2025, got honourable mention in Chromatic Photography Awards and became nominee for Fefocus 2024 Awards.
As part of Synchrodogs she was shortlisted for PinchukArtCentre Prize in 2013 (Kyiv, Ukraine), won FOAM Construct 2012 competition held by FOAM magazine (Netherlands) and Best Fine Art Photographer Title in Vogue Talent competition (Milano, Italy), was nominated for FOAM Paul Huf Award in 2016 and 2018, became winner of Feature Shoot Emerging Photography award and finalist of LensCulture Visual Storytelling Award in 2019. Synchrodogs also became one of winners of PH Museum Photography Grant Prize in 2021 and won LensCulture Summer award in 2022.
Project
“Innerland” by Synchrotania (Tania Shcheglova) is an ongoing, internationally-focused portrait series that pioneers what the artist calls “Inner World Portraiture” — a visual language that aims to reveal the psyche, subconscious and emotional interior of creative individuals rather than merely their outward appearance.
In Innerland, Shcheglova photographs artists and thinkers from across the world using a Staged Documentary approach that dissolves rigid physical borders and presents people as extensions of their environments, shaped by both inner landscapes and external contexts.
The project emphasises the boundless and ever-evolving nature of identity, exploring how human beings are more than what the eye sees and inviting viewers to contemplate the interplay between internal experience, creativity and our connection (or disconnection) with nature and self.
