The studio

Two people behind every image.

Born in Kazakhstan to Slavic roots, Mariya grew up in China before settling in France. From that nomadic life she kept a particular visual sensibility and a childhood obsession: the substance of light.

Photographer and art director, she stages every image: still lifes composed like paintings.

The K. Edits was born from a frustration: seeing her images small, scrolled past in seconds on websites and Instagram. Mariya wanted to see them large, to honour them, to touch them. To watch an image live in a space, she who has always loved interior decoration. So she turned them into works: printed on linen, hung on the wall.

Valentin is Mariya's partner. He admires her work and wanted to bring it into the light. He handles everything that turns an image into an object and brings it to you: the printing, the making, every piece that ships. He is the one who answers when you write.

Beauty is not a luxury. It is a necessity, deeply human.

The gesture

From print to wooden baton.

It all begins with the composition. Tiny, precious gestures: I barely breathe as I set the object exactly where I want it, sometimes in balance. It is a slow process, made of observation and retakes, until the image holds.

Each photograph is then printed on 100% natural linen, then hemmed by hand.

The baton that holds the work to the wall comes from a materials reuse workshop in Toulouse. We choose each piece of wood by hand, and a carpenter then shapes it. No two batons are alike.

We create twenty copies per image, not one more. Each is signed, numbered, delivered with its certificate of authenticity. When the twentieth leaves the studio, no more are printed: each work stays rare and precious. From the first gesture to the hanging, everything is human, handmade, from start to finish.

See Edition 01