Background
Elena Anatolyevna Chaplygina was born on August 12, 1970, in Varvarovka, Bogucharsky District, Voronezh region, Russian Federation.
Elena Anatolyevna Chaplygina was born on August 12, 1970, in Varvarovka, Bogucharsky District, Voronezh region, Russian Federation.
Elena Anatolyevna graduated from the Department of Industrial Graphics and Advertising at the Voronezh Art College in 1997.
Elena Anatolyevna worked as an advertising and public relations manager of the Today-Press-Voronezh agency in 1997-1998. She was head of the advertising service of the ''AVA'' production company in Voronezh in 1999-2001. The initiator of the creation (October 1999; together with M.I. Kvasov) and the head of the Voronezh regional branch of the Union of Photographers of Russia.
Elena Anatolyevna has been working as a regional curator of the annual photographic campaign "May 15. Russia: one day" since 2004, head of the inter-regional project "Open Festival of Professional and Amateur Photography "Know Ours!" since 2007.
Elena Anatolyevna married Mikhail Ivanovich Kvasov (a photographer and laureate of the international contest "Interfoto-98").