Masterpieces of "street" photography by Igor Mukhin

Igor Mukhin is one of the most famous contemporary Russian photographers.

His first exhibition took place in 1987, since then the master of black and white photography has regularly taken part in group and solo exhibitions in Russia and around the world. His works are included in the permanent exhibitions of the world's leading museums.

On the photographer's birthday, we present you a selection of his incredibly emotional "street" photos.

(Total 25 photos)

1. Igor Mukhin about his work: “I started to get involved in photography from a young age. It was a time when it was already possible to listen to rock, there was even some kind of rock party and it was really possible to get on the same Tsoi, Grebenshchikov or Shevchuk. You could take your camera and shoot something for yourself.”

2. 2010, Moscow

3. “Success is when you get five thousand dollars a day, and don’t wander around festivals at this time, send photos to your personal exhibitions, then they don’t give these photos to you or send them simply folded in half in an envelope.”

4. May 9, 2005

5. June, 2011. “There is a reality that I know, and a viewer who sees some kind of completely opposite picture that does not depend on me. And a critic is generally a person with a sick mind, and he sees something fifth, maybe.

6. “In other words, the meaning of the image is a reality that only the photographer knows.”

7. Festival “Empty Hills”, 2009

8. Festival “Empty Hills”, 2009

Like any professional artist, Igor Mukhin is looking for something more than just nature in exotic conditions, taken at an interesting moment. He photographs the paradoxes of this nature.

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10. Festival “Empty Hills”, 2009

11. Young people "culturally" have a rest at a biker show in Maloyaroslavets (Kaluga region), 2011.

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13. Bike show, June 2011.

14. One of the participants of the same bike show.

15. Igor Mukhin about other photographers: "There are authors whose work I like, for example, Diana Arbus, Robert Frank, Elliott Erwitt - there are probably 10 such photographers."

16. Moscow, August 2011.

17. Moscow, September 2011.

Igor about photography: “Probably, this is the definition of photography – an adventure. Every trip is an adventure.”

18. Rehearsal of the parade on Red Square, November 2011.

19. Rehearsal of the parade on Red Square, November 2011.

20 April 2012

“Twenty years ago I introduced the word “project” into Soviet photography. It came from my work at the design institute, where I designed air ducts, heating and sewage. As the lowest link, I had to draw something, design, put these rolls of paper somewhere, then they went for approval to the builders and fell into the unknown. Whether these houses will be built or not, I did not know. When I began to seriously engage in photography, by analogy with the situation when there is work, but no implementation, I began to use the word “project” in the photographic sense. For me, the end of a photography project is either a book or an exhibition.”

21. Moscow, July 2012.

“Black and white is black and white, and color is color. I don't see a black and white story filmed in color. I don’t see a plot shot in color, later in black and white. I basically carry two cameras - in one black and white, in the other color film, with exactly the same lenses. You see some plot in color - you shoot in color and vice versa.

22. Moscow, st. Tverskaya.

23. January 2013.

24. Moscow, January 13, 2013. An employee of the Ministry of Internal Affairs during the opposition procession against the law "Dima Yakovlev" (on the ban on the adoption of children by Americans).

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