Alexey Yurenev
New York, NY, USA
Alexey Yurenev was born in Moscow, Russia. After immigrating to the USA in 2002 he began his career in photography assisting photographers including Alexei Hay and Jessica Craig Martin. In 2014, Yurenev began working as a commercial photographer in New York where he created world wide image campaigns for brands such as Pepsi, Red Bull and SONOS, collaborating with BBDO, GREY and other creative agencies. In 2015, Yurenev abandoned commercial practice, switching his focus to documentary subjects. He began producing photo essays and contributing them to an English speaking resource about Russia - inrussia.com. In 2018 Yurenev graduated from ICP's documentary practice program and is currently working on a book about post-Soviet identity.
2018 - Moscow International Foto Awards, 2018 - Eddie Adams Workshop XXXI , 2019 - PDN'30 EMERGING PHOTOGRAPHER , 2019 - New York Times Portfolio Review
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Alexey Yurenev
Welcome To the Exit by Alexey Yurenev captures the Ukraine’s Odessa in a turbulent moment: between revolutions, martial law, and as a comedian president is elected and caught in the Trump impeachment vortex. Housed in a velour family album reminiscent of the time long gone, the book uses archival imagery and photographs of people from all walks of life to juxtapose the surreal theater of Odessa today with the utopian ideals of its Soviet past, revealing a current reality that is truly stranger than fiction.
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Alexey Yurenev
Welcome To the Exit by Alexey Yurenev captures the Ukraine’s Odessa in a turbulent moment: between revolutions, martial law, and as a comedian president is elected and caught in the Trump impeachment vortex. Housed in a velour family album reminiscent of the time long gone, the book uses archival imagery and photographs of people from all walks of life to juxtapose the surreal theater of Odessa today with the utopian ideals of its Soviet past, revealing a current reality that is truly stranger than fiction.
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Alexey Yurenev
Welcome To the Exit by Alexey Yurenev captures the Ukraine’s Odessa in a turbulent moment: between revolutions, martial law, and as a comedian president is elected and caught in the Trump impeachment vortex. Housed in a velour family album reminiscent of the time long gone, the book uses archival imagery and photographs of people from all walks of life to juxtapose the surreal theater of Odessa today with the utopian ideals of its Soviet past, revealing a current reality that is truly stranger than fiction.
