Nikita Shokhov
| Nikita Shokhov | |
|---|---|
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| Native name | Никита Константинович Шохов |
| Born |
15 February 1988 Kamensk-Uralsky, USSR |
| Nationality | Russian |
| Education |
2005–08: AA, Ural Law Institute; 2008–09: cinematography at Sverdlovsk Film Studio 2010–13: photography at The Rodchenko School of Photography and Multimedia |
| Known for | Photography, contemporary art |
| Notable work | Utrish |
| Style | Portrait, documentary and staged photography |
| Awards |
World Press Photo – 3rd prize for Staged Portrait Stories 2014 Utrish |
| Website |
nikita-shokhov |
| Patron(s) | Igor Moukhin, Sergei Rogozkin |
Nikita Shokhov (Russian: Никита Константинович Шохов; born 1988 in Kamensk-Uralsky, USSR) is a Russian photographer. Shokhov is a former student of Igor Moukhin and the winner of 2014 World Press Photo contest.[1]
He is the son of Konstantin Shokhov a painter, art critic, and associate professor at the chair of Fine Arts at Tyumen State University.[2][3]
Background
Shokhov's interest in visual arts developed under the influence of his father. Shokhov started his education at a law college, but his interests shifted towards cinematography. He applied to the Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography (also known as VGIK) in Moscow and began to study photography.[2]
He learned from a Ekaterinburg-based photographer Sergey Rogozhkin and took classes at a photography school there. At that time he also worked at a commercial photography studio doing nightlife reports, which would later comprise his Moscow Night Life series.[2] He also studied part-time at Sverdlovsk Film Studio.
In Moscow, Shokhov failed the entrance at VGIK several times before applying to the Rodchenko School of Photography and Multimedia. He was enrolled in Igor Moukhin's class.[4] Shokhov's manner of work combining staged photography and photojournalism developed during that apprenticeship.[5]
Photography
Shokhov's methods vary from documentary to staged photography. He claims to highlight universal topics, performing visual research on both everyday affairs, religion, and carnivalesque topics. Some of Shokhov's series have a strong reference to the works of the preceding generation of photographers.
His Moscow Night Life series created in 2010–2014 highlighted low, carnival motives in scenes from night clubs, both luxurious and underground ones.[6] It proceeds from the manner Boris Mikhailov, Sergey Chilikov, and Nikolai Bakharev recorded the late soviet and post-soviet Russian youth culture.[7][8] The series consists of staged images and unedited documentary shots.
In the 2012–2014 Sacred Procession series, Shokhov approaches religious processions in a Russian province as a candid camera operator, bringing an unedited report. In this manner of etnographic research via photography, he depicts the prestigious Moscow's Rublevka household in a 2013 series.[9]
The 2012–2013 Black Sea Vacation is an insight into low culture of Sochi and Anapa resorts. Shokhov's collective portrait of vacationers calls up to Martin Parr's method[10][11] as well as to the works of his master Sergei Rogozkin.[2][12] His 2014 Utrich series that won a World Press Photo award develops it further through a fullystaged series based on iconographic scenes. Shokhov claims that the combination of planned scenario and models' improvisation was inspired by the works of Annie Leibovitz, David Lachapelle, and Ryan McGinley.[5]
Contemporary Russian character is another Shokhov's point of interest.[4][13] He sampled people's way of life and ties to national culture in the small towns of Bologoe (shot in 2014) and Pereslavl-Zalessky (shot in 2013), a Sep village in Udmurtia.
In 2014, Shokhov took part in a large Where Does the Motherland Begin? national photographic project aimed to depict a variety of Russian traditions and overlapping of soviet and modern Russian culture.[14]
Shokhov's 2014 Children Personal Space series is a research on living space and the way it fits young people with surreal scenarios shot in a routine environment.[15]
In May 2015, Shokhov's Without Dictatorship of the Gaze series was exhibited in GRAD gallery in London along with other art projects addressing political and social matters. It is an experiment on journalist photography, a slow-shutter images of mass protests in Moscow.[16]
Shokhov's works have been published by both Russian and international popular and professional magazines including The Guardian, ArtKhronika, Harper's Bazaar Art, Calvert Journal, L'Insense Photo, Infra-mince,[17] and Le Monde (the latter published Shokhov's imagined story about Russian president Vladimir Putin).[18]
Exhibitions
Solo exhibitions
- 2012 Empty Hills. The Space of Joy, Galerie Iragui, Moscow[19]
- 2012 Sochi. City of the Future Olympic Games, White Nights Festival, Perm
- 2013 Black Sea Vacations, a Fashion and Style Biennale event, Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow[20]
- 2014 Moscow Night Life, a Moscow Biennale of Photography event, Zurab Tsereteli gallery, Moscow[7]
- 2015 Children: Personal Space, Gallery Peresvetov, Moscow[15]
- 2015 Sacred Procession, State Art Gallery, Baltic Biennial of Photography, Kaliningrad[21]
Notable group exhibitions
- 2010 Self-image, Plates to Pixels gallery, Portland, USA[22]
- 2011 Life in Motion, International Center of Photography, New York[23]
- 2012 The Stone Flower, National Centre for Contemporary Arts, Moscow[24]
- 2013 Stability. Ghosts, Random gallery, Moscow
- 2013 Chernukha, RuArts gallery, Moscow[25]
- 2013 The Happy End, Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow[26]
- 2013 What is Behind This Curtain?, Random Gallery, Moscow[27]
- 2014 Twelve Thinking Photographers, Manifesta 10 parallel event, First Cadets' Corpus, St. Petersburg[28]
- 2014 Moscow. Barocco, 4th Moscow International Biennale for young art collaterial event, Triumph Gallery, Moscow[29]
- 2014 Artistic Invention of Yourself and the Pure Enjoyment of Life and Love, Austrian Cultural Forum, Moscow[30]
- 2014 Moskovia. Research, All-Russian Decorative Art Museum, Moscow[31]
- 2014 Young, GUP gallery, Amsterdam[32]
- 2014 Where Motherland Begins, Museum of History of Moscow, Moscow[14]
- 2015 Borderlands, Gallery for Russian Arts and Design, London[33]
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Borderlands, London, 2015
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Children: Personal Space, Moscow, 2015
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Sacred Procession, Kaliningrad, 2015
References
- ↑ "Nikita Shokhov's profile at World Press Photo website". Retrieved 23 June 2015.
- 1 2 3 4 Митич, Юлия (22 March 2013). "Никита Шохов. "Главное правило: правил нет"" (in Russian). Leica Camera Russia Blog. Retrieved 23 June 2015.
- ↑ "Konstantin Shokhov's profile at Art Critics Association of Russia website" (in Russian). Retrieved 23 June 2015.
- 1 2 Протасеня, Наталия (23 September 2014). "Никита Шохов: "Критикуя, я пытаюсь уравновесить действительность"" (in Russian). Aroundart.ru. Retrieved 23 June 2015.
- 1 2 Анна, Толстова (16 May 2014). "Доложите постановку" (in Russian). Kommersant. Retrieved 23 June 2015.
- ↑ Inozemtseva, Ekaterina (18 December 2014). "Description of Moscow Night Life project by exhibition curator". Nikita Shokhov. Retrieved 23 June 2015.
- 1 2 "Moscow Photobiennale. 2014 Nikita Shokhov: Moscow Night Life". L'Oeil de la Photographie. 24 February 2014. Retrieved 23 June 2015.
- ↑ "Wild nights: shedding light on Moscow after dark". Calvert Journal. 18 December 2014. Retrieved 23 June 2015.
- ↑ Nikita, Shokhov (24 May 2013). "Рублевка" (in Russian). Colta.ru. Retrieved 23 June 2015.
- ↑ Giulia, Mangione (14 August 2014). "'Sun and mayhem' – Russia hits the beach". The Guardian. Retrieved 23 June 2015.
- ↑ Олег, Климов (7 November 2012). "Никита Шохов: "Мартин Парр из школы Родченко"" (in Russian). Liberty.su. Retrieved 23 June 2015.
- ↑ "В Екатеринбурге сравнили снимки фотографов СССР с работами призера World Press Photo-2014" (in Russian). Russian News Agency "TASS". 10 July 2014. Retrieved 23 June 2015.
- ↑ "В Бологое создается уникальная всепогодная open-air фотоэкспозиция о городе и его жителях" (in Russian). Afanasy.biz. Retrieved 23 June 2015.
- 1 2 Попова, Анна (15 May 2014). "В Музее Москвы создали фотолетопись современной России" (in Russian). RBC Information Systems. Retrieved 23 June 2015.
- 1 2 "Мама надела на брата белое одеяние, и он возомнил себя богом". Afisha.Gorod. 5 December 2014. Retrieved 23 June 2015.
- ↑ Premiyak, Liza (2 May 2015). "At the boundary of art and politics: 'Borderlands' at GRAD reviewed". Apollo Magazine. Retrieved 23 June 2015.
- ↑ Fenzy, Rémy; Talbot, Patrick (2012). Fenzy, Rémy, ed. "Infra-mince" (in French). 7. ENSP (Ecole Nationale Supérieure de la Photographie): 124–145. ISBN 9782330009045.
- ↑ "Непредвиденный исход президентских выборов" (in Russian). Openspace.ru. 28 February 2012. Retrieved 23 June 2015.
- ↑ Ольга, Данилкина (11 June 2012). "Другие пустые холмы" (in Russian). Aroundart.ru. Retrieved 23 June 2015.
- ↑ Попова, Анна (21 February 2013). "В Москве начинается биеннале "Мода и стиль в фотографии"" (in Russian). RBC Information Systems. Retrieved 23 June 2015.
- ↑ "The Program of the Festival in 2015". Kaliningradfoto.ru. Retrieved 23 June 2015.
- ↑ "Self-image exhibition summary on Plates to Pixels gallery website". Retrieved 23 June 2015.
- ↑ Alessandra, McAlister (23 October 2013). "Touching portraits of disabled Russian orphans taken by ten photographers". Featureshoot.com. Retrieved 23 June 2015.
- ↑ "Каменный цветок/ Государственный центр современного искусства". Museum.ru. 12 July 2013. Retrieved 23 June 2015.
- ↑ Preobrazhenskiy, Kirill. "Chernukha exhibition summary at RuArts gallery website" (in Russian). RuArts. Retrieved 23 June 2015.
- ↑ "The Happy End. Catalogue of diploma projects 2013". Rodchenko School of Photography and Multimedia: 85–89.
- ↑ "What is behind this curtain? exhibition overview on Rodchenko school website". Rodchenko School of Photography and Multimedia. Retrieved 23 June 2015.
- ↑ "Twelve Thinking Photographers exhibition page on Manifesta 10 website". Paralleleventsm10.ru. Retrieved 23 June 2015.
- ↑ "Moscow. Barocco. 2014. exhibition page on Biennale website". Youngart.ru. Retrieved 23 June 2015.
- ↑ "Explizit und dezent zugleich". Orf.at. 6 June 2014. Retrieved 23 June 2015.
- ↑ ""Московия. Research". Фотография, видео". Museum.ru. 12 July 2013. Retrieved 23 June 2015.
- ↑ "Young, December 12 – January 4". Gup Magazine. 11 June 2011. Retrieved 23 June 2015.
- ↑ "Borderlands, 20 March – 16 May 2015". Grad-london.com. Retrieved 23 June 2015.