Evgeny Mokhorev was born in 1967 in Saint Petersburg. In 1986 he started working as a profesional photographer for a state entreprise. He became member of the famous photographic club Zérkalo (Mirror) in 1988 and received the prize Discovery of the Year within the first Festival of Photography of Russia in 1993. He is a member of the Union of Artists and the Union of Photographers of Russia. Between 1988 and 1997 he participated in more then 40 exhibitions in Russia and abroad. He lives and works in Saint Petersburg, Russia.