Alexey titarenko city of shadows

Alexey Titarenko has photographed Saint Petersburg since he was 8-years-old. In fact, he says, he has dedicated his whole life to the city. Titarenko sees his photographs as reflecting the history of his city, and Russia, over the past 20 years. “Through the prism of my native city, I attempt to show events that occurred not only here, but throughout the country - the changes, the catastrophies, and the human tragedies, which have swept this city and the people of this land.” In the 1990s…

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Discover all artworks by Alexey Titarenko (Russian, 1962) on MutualArt along with auctions, exhibitions and articles featuring the artist.

Alexey Titarenko’s Woman On Corner, St Petersburg, 1995 (via here)

Inspiration lies everywhere. In fact, it can even be found in the most darkest of times. For Alexey Titarenko, that time came when the Soviet Union

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Click here to read Titarenko’s essay City of Shadows, published in The City is a Novel (Damiani, 2015), in which he describes his coming-of-age as an artist, the social and political context of his work, and some of his greatest influences, in particular Dostoyevsky and Shostakovich. Born in 1962 in Leningrad, present-day St. Petersburg, Titarenko began taking photographs at a young age and studied in the Department of Cinematic and Photographic Art at Leningrad’s Institute of Culture. He…

Alexey Titarenko has developed a unique style, “metaphorical photography," he exposes the frailty of human existence.

Alexey Titarenko was born in 1962 in St. Petersburg. His monograph The City is a Novel features over 140 photographs of his work in St. Petersburg, Venice, Havana, and New York.