Svetlana Melik-Nubarova is a photographer from Kazakhstan. Beyond Crime, by Kazakh photographer Svetlana Melik-Nubarova, won 1st Place in the People category for photography books at the 2026 International Photography Awards.
The conceptual series is inspired by Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment. Through the figures of Raskolnikov, Sonya, Katerina Ivanovna, Lizaveta and Porfiry, it explores how violence becomes justified not through emotion but through ideas. It traces the transformation of murder from a crime into a belief system.
Read in Luminaries: Crime, Ideas and the Making of a Monster
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