Darian Volkova is a 25-year-old professional ballet dancer and self-taught photographer from Saint Petersburg, Russia, who specializes in capturing ballet dancers and performance art.

Ballet is my native environment so I can show this world as the dancer see it, she says.

Graduated from Saint-Petersburg State University of Culture and Arts, Darian works at Russias St.Petersburg Ballet Theatre and reveals trade secrets. She captures prima ballerinas of Mariinsky, Bolshoi, Mikhailovsky and other theaters.