The Absence of Night

Oops! It seems there was a little mishap with my portfolio, but fear not, I'm here to make things right!

I am Anya (Anna) Hayat, a multidisciplinary creative, graphic designer, WordPress developer, and lens-based artist. With over thirty years in visual communication, creativity has never been just a job for me. It is my way of life and my way of perceiving the world.

In the digital realm, I build complex multilingual WordPress websites using Elementor Pro. I focus on merging a solid technical foundation with structure, elegance, and usability. My experience also includes years of designing print materials and crafting visual identities that resonate across different languages and cultures.

My artistic heart lives in Incertum, a collaborative analogue photography project created with my partner and life companion, Slava Pirsky. We work with Polaroid negatives, collage, and mixed media to explore memory, fragility, and transformation. You are warmly invited to step into our world at incertum.com, a place where images breathe, break, and come back to life.

This site is not a traditional portfolio. It is a space for visual experiments, quiet beauty, poetic expression, and the occasional strange adventure. This is where I share what I create, what I see, and what I imagine.

Welcome, and thank you for being here.

In the Loop
Postbotanica

Gallery G-77 presents our new project “POSTBOTANICA” as part of the International Festival Kyotographie+ 2025 program. April 12-27 2025 This exhibition redefines our relationship with [...]

That happened in December 27, 2021
Outwitting the Devil
Akram Khan's Outwitting the Devil is one of the greatest performances I ever saw.

Ain't no sunshine when she's gone
Only darkness every day
Ain't no sunshine when she's gone
And this house just ain't no home
Anytime she goes away