Ingie was raised in beautiful Saint Petersburg, Russia. As a child, she excelled in music and art and studied in music school for 8 years to become a concert pianist. She graduated from The Saint Petersburg University of Culture and Arts (BA summa cum laude in music management). Having worked as a fashion model, Ingie developed a passion for photography. She feels that photography enables one to visualize a person’s soul. Ingie then spent over 5 years as a film production executive with Parallel Media where she was responsible for reading and reporting on script submissions, creative evaluations of projects and translating contracts and scripts into Russian or English. Since leaving Parallel Media, she has decided to focus her efforts on photography as that has remained her true passion.