Nikita Teryoshin
Dortmund, Germany
Nikita Teryoshin, Russia, describes his photography work as “street, documentary and everyday horror”. Raised first in St. Petersburg and then in Dortmund, where he earned a BA in Photography, Teryoshin is currently based in Berlin.
Teryoshin worked for 4 years on his first longterm project about the german industrial dairy cow. The way of treatment and the artificial world cows are living in, reminded him on the Matrix movies. It was shocking to realize, what human are willing to do to an inferior creature in the name of efficiency. The series was published on the cover of the German VICE Magazine and widely discussed on the internet.
The next longterm project was "Nothing Personal - the backoffice of war". Between 2016 and 2019 he visited 13 Defence Fairs on in 12 countries to give an insight on the global arms trade. Supported by the VG Bildkunst and PH Museum Grant.
In September 2019 he participated at the Joop Swart Masterclass in Amsterdam and started to shoot his new series "I've never been to Russia".
He works as freelance photographer for magazines as SZ Magazin, ZEIT Magazin, GQ, Spiegel and Stern. His personal projects have been published in VICE, Le Monde M, Vrij Nederland, ZEIT Magazin, GUP Magazine (NL), WIRED, Süddeutsche Zeitung. His first solo exhibition took place in Strasbourg, FR at La Chambre in September 2017. In 2019 he won the first prize at the Miami Street Photography Festival and PH Museum Grant First Prize with the "Nothing Personal" series.
2019 - PH Museum Grant First Prize, 2019 - Miami Street Photography Award First Prize
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