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ONE WOMAN. MANY LIVES.

Elena Levon is a Russian-American multidisciplinary artist, author, and explorer whom photographer Robert Farber has described as a modern-day Renaissance woman.

Author of Naked Poetry—endorsed by Lionel Richie and shaped through collaborations with internationally recognized artists—her work reflects more than two decades of travel across six continents and over 100 countries.

Her path has taken her from private circles at the highest levels of global culture and leadership to some of the world’s most remote and demanding environments: documenting Yanomami funerary rituals (endocannibalism) in the Amazon, living in the Darien Gap, interviewing rebels in Mali, traversing the Sahara, and surviving Category 5 Cyclone Winston in Fiji.

In 2023, with no prior sailing experience, Elena Levon purchased the 47-foot sailing yacht Rebels and began offshore sailing expeditions that have since taken her more than 10,000 nautical miles across the Atlantic Ocean. Based on available public records and documented sailing routes, in 2026 Elena Levon became the first woman to sail and anchor a private yacht double-handed in Liberia (West Africa), and the first woman to co-captain a private, non-commercial sailing yacht in a rare double-handed crossing of the central Gulf of Guinea—one of the least-traveled and most dangerous maritime regions in the world.

Today, Elena Levon is transforming those experiences into books, photography, films, and humanitarian work.

SAILING THE LAST FRONTIER: DOUBLE-HANDED ACROSS THE CENTRAL GULF OF GUINEA

“A portion of proceeds from my online store is dedicated to helping individuals, families and local communities in need in Africa and elsewhere — directly, personally, and whenever possible, from my hands to theirs.” — Elena Levon

Featured in Yachting World: “We sailed through the world’s most dangerous place to sail” ("Off African Shores" in the print edition. “Icons” issue August 2026) Pirates, storms. and the kindness of strangers.

ART WORLD

Photo credit - Landon Nordeman

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