Igor Mukhin

Igor Mukhin follow Russian, born 1961

Lives in Moscow, Russia

Projects/Portfolios

Resistance

MOSCOW, Russia

MOSCOW_2. Bohemia

Weekend

Was born in 1961 in Moscow.
After the termination of building college works in project institute, then the controller in protection. In 1986-1987 visits employment in Alexander Lapina's studio , in 1986-1987 co-operates in a rock samizdat. In 1987 — the first personal exhibition in recreation centre the Moscow State University.
Since 1987 — the participant of group «Direct photo». Since 1989 starts to work as the free-lance photographer.
During perestroika removes the independent photo-project about the Soviet youth and rock musicians .
In the end of 1980 starts to work over photo-projects:
• «the Soviet monuments». (Works from these projects have been shown at exhibitions: «Sots-art. Political art in Russia», the State Tretyakov gallery and La Maison Rouge, Paris in 2007).
• «the Soviet bench» .
• «Fragments of the Soviet evident propaganda» .
• «the Soviet children's playgrounds» and others.
From the middle of 1990th years there are independent documentary photo-projects about a life in Moscow and the Russian province, such as:
• «Night Moscow».
• "Girls".
• «Resistance» The author's project work over which proceeded more than 20 years has been shown in 2010 in XL Gallery (the Center Winzavod), Moscow .
In 1996 has presented the report at the international photo-festival InterFoto , Moscow.
In 1999 receives the grant from a city administration of Paris and works over a theme «Enamoured in Paris» by request of F.N.A.C. With the assistance of Committee on celebrating of 2000, France. The big retrospective personal exhibition «Moscow - Paris», shown in the Moscow house of a photo (2002) and the State Russian museum (2003) became a work result.
The double prize-winner of competition «Silver chamber» (the Moscow house of a photo) for the best reporting on Moscow. In 2003 the photographer of year (the project: the person of decade), under version Rambler .
The preferable technics — rangefinder camera «Leica ?6» and black-and-white photographic materials.

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