Katya Ilina is an artist, photographer and director known for vibrant cinematic work exploring gender, identity, body, and cultures. She works globally for a range of commercial and editorial clients, including TIME, Dazed, BBC, WeTransfer, Logitech, The Guardian, among others. 

Katya was a winner of The National Portrait Gallery's Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2021 and had work exhibited and published internationally, including British Journal of Photography's Portrait of Britain, CONTACT Photography Festival, Open Walls Arles, The Royal Photographic Society's International Photography Exhibitions, and Der Greif.