Evgeniy Pavlov and Tetiana Pavlova are a married couple – a photographer and an art historian – who have collaborated on numerous creative projects. They met in 1975 in Kyiv, where they were both pursuing their education at the time: Tetiana was a student at the Faculty of Art Studies at the Kyiv State Art Institute (now the National Academy of Fine Arts And Architecture), while Evgeniy was studying cinematography at the Karpenko-Kary State Theatre Institute in Kyiv (now the Kyiv National University of Theatre, Cinema and Television named after I. K. Karpenko-Kary).