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Born in Ukraine, Valeriia Eriomenco-Yeromenko, also known as Thee Ryder, is a fashion photographer and visual artist based in Bratislava, navigating life in migration. With over five years of practice across commercial, editorial and e-commerce photography, she works through the full span of image production, from concept and direction to retouching and final delivery.

Alongside photography she works in 3D and CGI art direction, developing visual concepts, virtual environments and animatics in Unreal Engine, and collaborating with technical specialists to bring synthetic and real imagery into coherent visual worlds.

Her research-based practice, developed at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava, moves between analogue and digital processes, from film and photograms to 3D reconstruction and interactive environments.

She also writes code. Creative coding studies and personal experiments in JavaScript and p5.js, developed through coursework and further experimentation, explore drawing, animation, generative patterns, webcam and keyboard interaction, and experimental websites. Her brand and digital product design is on Behance.