My Moscow: Photographs
Igor Moukhin
Schilt
English
Introduction by Zakhar Prilepin
Edited by Irina Meglinskaya
Hardcover
196 pages
280 × 220 mm
2012
ISBN 9789053307670
Photography in post-Soviet Russia, just as its citizens, had to reinvent itself and find its own path under constant pressure. The task was, and is still not easy: how can one find the balance between the right market and financial constraints with the search for truth, sincerity, so deeply rooted in Moukhin’s own nature?
Igor Moukhin, like many others, was part of a club of amateurs of photography, one of these passionate gatherings, as there were thousands at the time in the USSR. For years, with low budget equipment, homemade labs and a lot of passion, people gathered to make pictures, chat and share their love of photography, in almost total ignorance of what was happening elsewhere. With that love, they managed to capture life, family or friends. The immediate barrier that stands between the subject and the photographer, especially in Russia where you distrust involved “foreigners” who harass you for an image, fades when it comes with an amateur photographer. It is this attitude, this love, this close relation between the photographer and the person he’s taking a picture of that Moukhin has managed to preserve while becoming a professional photographer.
About the Artist
Igor Mukhin (born in 1961) lives and works in Moscow. He is a photographer and teaches a workshop at the Rodchenko Moscow School of Photography and Multimedia. During the Perestroika and glasnost period, he did an independent photo project dedicated to Soviet young and rock musicians. Since the 90’s he shoots the streets of Moscow and describes the changes in the Russian capital, from the fall of the USSR to the rise of the new Russia.
igormukhin.com
About the Publisher
Schilt Publishing and Schilt Gallery are respectively a publishing house specialised in high quality photography books, and a commercial gallery representing a wide range of top class artists from all over the world.
schiltpublishing.com
Further Reading
(Source https://upphotographers.com/photographer/igor-mukhin/)
