Territories of Desire, currently on view at the Tampere Art Museum during Finland’s Backlight Festival, is featuring young Russian photographers. We feel it is important to devote today’s Lettre to this panorama of contemporary Russian photography.

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Anna Block was born in 1982 in Moscow, Russia. In 2004 she took up photography. Anna has personal (2010 Art gallery 40 Squares, Smolensk (Russia) and collective (in Russia, Latvia, China, USA) exhibitions. Publications in Foto&Video magazine, ZOOM Russian magazine. In 2011 Anna was invited by Art & Cultur...

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Leo Bugaev was born in 1975 in Krasnodar, Russia. He graduated from the Kuban State University, Faculties Fine Arts and Drawing. Participated in the First South Russian Biennale of the Modern Art in Rostov-on-Don. Publications in Photodelo magazine (Russia).

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Alexander Gronsky was born in 1980 in Tallinn, Estonia; lives in Russia since 2006. He is a member of Photographer.Ru agency since 2004. Publications in Esquire, Afisha World (Russia), Geo, Elle, Wallpaper (UK), Le Monde 2, The Sunday Times, Expert, Newsweek (US), Art+Auction (US), Conde Nast Trave...

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Tatyana Ilyina was born in 1984 in Moscow, Russia. Lives and works in Moscow. Encountered photography at the age of 20 after a long lasting interest in cinema.
She loved the French new wave most. She used to shoot short documentaries and decided to turn to photography. Since then she has been studying...

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Sergey Kremnev was born in 1984 in Yaroslavl, Russia. He has graduated in architecture. He took part in group exhibitions in Yaroslavl, Kronshdat, Moscow and organize personal exhibitions: «Hot cold» (Yaroslavl, 2008), «Architecture of Movement» (Yaroslavl, 2009), «City vocabulary» (Yaroslavl, 2010). A...

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Sergey Kozmin was born in Moscow in 1979 in Russia. He speaks English, German and Spanish. For the last years he's being doing reportage work in and beyond Russia.

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Sergey Lutsenko was born in 1984. In 2005 graduated from the Krasnodar Art School, department of easel painting. In 2005 entered the Commercial Academy of Art KGUKI, department of graphic design. Completed the course of Conceptual Photography. Participated in group exhibitions in Russia.

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Stanislav Markov is a photographer, producer and graphic designer. Born in 1985 in Moscow, Russia. Living and working in Moscow. Participated in group exhibition Lemniscate, Toulouse, France (2009). Publications in SQUARE Magazine, Adbusters, OVER/UNDER Magazine, Moloko+ Magazine, Status Magazine, Ar...

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Ivan Mikhailov was born in 1981 in Novocheboksarsk, Russia. He graduated from the Chuvash Pedagogical State University with a teaching degree in fine arts and drawing. As a student, he organized his first personal photo exhibition. After graduating, he worked as a commercial photographer for the design...

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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 Russ...

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Margo Ovcharenko was born in Krasnodar, Russia. Graduated from Moscow school of Photography and Multimedia. Solo exhibitions in Copenhagen, Moscow, St.Petersburg and participant of numerous exhibition projects and festivals in Russia, Europe and US, including Re:Generation-2 and the New York Photo Fe...

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Sofia Pigalova was born in 1989. Lives and works in Nizhniy Novgorod

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Pavel Platonov is a 21-year artist from Russia. He began to experiment with photography several years ago. Now he studys at the Architectural University and make installations with complex geometric objects. He made the portrait series with abstract images of men without references to time, country or ...

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Tatyana Plotnikova was born in 1973 in St. Petersburg, Russia. Active as a photographer since 2007. Graduated from the St.Petersburg Economical University with a degree in Accounting and Audit and the St.Petersburg Politechnical University with a degree in graphic design. In 2006-2008 studied at th...

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Julia Prokhorova was born in 1980 in Moscow, Russia. Publications in Afisha magazine (Russia), Rolling Stone, Institute of Global Climate and Ecology catalogue, PIGmag fanzine.

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Jana Romanova is a documentary photographer, mostly interested in self-identity theme and everything connected to self-presentation and roles people play in society. She was born in 1984 in Saint-Petersburg, Russia. She cooperates with Russian Reporter magazine and agency Anzenberger (Austria). She had ...

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Konstantin Salomatin was born in 1978 in Russia. Graduated from The Ural State University (Russia, Yekaterinburg). Started his career as a photojournalist in 2002, in 2009 started to work as a freelancer with Russian Reporter magazine. Represented by Agency.Photographer.ru in Moscow since 2005. P...

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Andrey Shapran was born in 1968 in Riga, Latvia. He lives and works in Novosibirsk, Russia. For the last 4 years he has worked on a project about native people inhabiting the north-east of Russia – the South Kuril Islands, Kamchatka and Chukchi peninsulas. The materials for Andrey Shapran's work are pe...

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Irina Yulieva lives in Saint Petersburg, Russia. She has participated in group exhibitions in Russia. Awards - Finalist of young photographers contest Shots Directory Photography Competition 2011, England (2010), nominated in Festival's competition Circle of life, Lithuania, Vilnius (2010). Publications...

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Oksana Yushko is a freelance photographer, started working as a professional journalist in 2006, based in Moscow. Higher education in computer science and mathematics. Changed her profession and became a photographer 5 years ago when realized her interest in photography, and later in a documentary story...

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Alena Zhandarova is a young Russian photographer, was born in 1988 in Ivanovo, Russia. She has graduate from university this year. She has some publications in Russian magazines (like Digital Photo, Photo&Video). Alena is the finalist of Kaunas Photo Star competition (Lithuania – 2010). Now Alena is ...

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