Photography – Toronto
Refaya Turshin (c.1994) is a Bangladeshi born, Toronto-based fine artist and photographer whose work focuses on hybrid photography and combining other interdisciplinary to photography. Her known works' explores interrelationship between Fashion, Photography, Sustainability, and Design.
Turshin is the creator behind the contemporary eco-wear RT Atelier Co, which participated in RAW Artists Canada since 2022, Fashion Art Toronto, and the The Vegan Fashion Show, and international shows. Her work with Fashion Art Toronto was interviewed by writer Rebecca Rose Taylor and published on Saint Felix Dekingsey Volume 24 N 6 June 2023. RT Atelier Co featured on NYC Billboard at New York Fashion Week Fall/Winter with Fashion Forward Meetups Team, September 6th, 2023. RT Atelier Co was feature as brand on Elle Canada, Vogue México y Latinoamérica. RT was showcased in the runway as well as published as a brand on "Style Canada Collaborates with Destination Toronto to Spotlight Sustainable Brands at Soho House Chicago".
Turshin takes interest in abstract, structured, rendered, conceptually theorised contemporary art and is often inspired by the "less is more" concept. She allows her work to express a message as well as make the audience feel visually at the colours and concept.
In her practice; she experiments with mixed media/medium, which includes glass, Japanese silk, chiffon, cotton fabric, recycled garments and materials, wood, etc.
Her most common practice of medium is exploring movement of photographs captured by her of architectural structure by printing them on Japanese silk organza, which she fabricates herself.
"One garment, one body, viewed, angled, and styled in many different ways…as an architectural figure would.", quotes Turshin.