Nikita Shokhov
Photographer
LUZ
Bloomington, IN, USA
● Working in professional photography more than 8 years, I collaborated with magazines and galleries internationally (USA, UK, Russia, France, Netherlands, Argentina). The photo series Utrish was awarded by World Press Photo for Staged portraits in 2014
● I work with documentary, portraits, fashion, studio and staged photography, video, I also like experiments in digital photography. I’m interested in topics connected to politics, social issues, fashion, music, sexuality, and religion. I devote a lot of attention to specific visuality in terms lightning, colors, movement, etc
● I worked a lot with leading media, such as Afisha, Harper's Bazaar Art, Lenta, Snob, L'Express, ELLE, Interview, Time Out, etc. My personal projects were published in The Guardian, Le Monde, L'Insense Photo, Calvert Journal.
Participated in workshops of: documentary photographer Ed Kashi from New York, of book publisher Hannes Wanderer from Berlin and of documentary photographer Davide Monteleone from Italy. In 2010-2015 completed 11 projects that participated in 6 solo and 30 group exhibitions in Russia, Great Britain, France, the United States, the Netherlands and Poland. Recently works with video projects.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
2015
"Sacred Procession", State Art Gallery, Baltic Biennial of Photography, Kaliningrad
2014
"Moscow Night Life”, Moscow Biennial of Photography
2013
"Black Sea vacations", Biennial Fashion and Style in Photography, Moscow
2012
"Empty Hills. The space of joy", Galerie Iragui, Moscow
GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
2015
"Sacred Procession", The 5th Photoquai, musée du quai Branly, Paris
"Borderlands", Gallery for Russian Arts and Design, London
2014
"Twelve Reflective Photographers", Manifesta 10, Parallel Programme, St. Petersburg
“Young”, GUP gallery, Amsterdam
2011
"Life in Motion", International Center of Photography, New York
2015 - Silver Camera (Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow), 2014 - World Press Photo
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