COLORS – ELENA KULIKOVA {EXCLUSIVE EDITORIAL/NSFW}

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Elena  Kulikova began modeling at seventeen years old – she immersed herself in a world of commercial photography while simultaneously experimenting with it on her own. Self-taught but mentored by well known photographers, Elena launched her photographic career in Amsterdam in 2006, and currently lives in Los Angeles where she spends her days creating and always pushing the limits of her creativity. In this exclusive editorial for NAKID, Elena and models Leila Spilman and Marisa Papen team up to bring us this hot, trippy and mesmerizing sequence full of color, skin, and ispiration!

See more of photographer Elena Kulikova’s work here:  INSTAGRAM

 

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