Turkina Faso is a London-based visual artist who works in photography, text, and film.

In 2009, Turkina graduated from the Institute of Contemporary Art in Moscow, and in 2011, she graduated from the Institute of Journalism and Literature with a degree as a journalist in art.

She also got an MA in Fashion Photography course at the University of the Arts London (London College of Fashion) in 2016 with two final books. The project ‘MEandTHEM: Back Home with Alice’ was published and reviewed by the British Journal of Photography, Vogue Italia, i-D magazine, etc. Turkina was featured in Numero Russia's 'Top 17 of 2017'.

Commercial clients include YSL Beauty, Paco Rabanne, Bvlgari, Mulberry, Dazed Digital, Vogue Italia, L'Officiel Italia, Vogue China, Vogue Russia, Numero Russia, Liberation, Telerama amongst many others.

In 2019, she had three exhibitions: a collective exhibition in Vichy, France, and two solo shows in Moscow, Russia.

Turkina is an associate lecturer at the London College of Fashion in the BA and MA Fashion Photography courses. She also teaches in Russian photography schools and universities and has participated in public talks and photography symposiums worldwide since 2013.

She is currently working on her first feature film.