How photographer Elizaveta Porodina finds the beauty in her nightmares

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As a child, Russian photographer Elizaveta Porodina had one recurring dream. In her sleep, she would visit the same glittering violet hillside, and when she climbed it, a hidden world revealed itself, inhabited by eerie mutated beings, oddly shaped animals and people with intensely purple eyes. “It had horrifying aspects, but strangely, it also felt like home,” she says. “Almost like somewhere I had lived before.” It’s this recurring dream that shaped thehellip;read more raquo;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;View Gallery (7 images)nbsp;