Igor Mukhin
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Igor Vladimirovich Moukhin 19 November 1961 Moscow, Soviet Union |
| Nationality | Soviet Russian |
| Known for | Photography |
| Website | www |
Igor Vladimirovich Moukhin (Russian: И́горь Влади́мирович Му́хин; born 19 November 1961), is a Soviet and Russian photographer.
After graduating from college, Moukhin worked in a project institute. From 1985 to 1986 he attended classes at the studio of prominent Moscow photographer Alexander Lapin. He later spent several years working with samizdat rock musicians.
In 1987, Moukhin had his first personal exhibition at the Moscow State University. Since 1989 he has been working as an independent photographer.
Moukhin is known for his photographs of Soviet rock musicians of the perestroika period, including Viktor Tsoi, Boris Grebenshikov and Petr Mamonov. His projects have included The Soviet Monuments, The Soviet Bench, Fragments of Evident Propaganda, The Soviet Children's Playgrounds, Night Moscow, Girls, Moscow in Winter: Heavy Breath of Winter and The Province. The Nizhniy Novgorod vacation. Some of the photographs from these projects were shown at the Tretyakov gallery and La Maison Rouge in Paris in 2007. In the mid-1990s, Moukhin worked on documentary projects about Moscow and provincial Russia.
In 1996, he was a guest speaker at the international festival InterFoto in Moscow. In 1999, Moukhin received a grant from the Paris Mayor's office to work on a project titled "Lovers in Paris" sponsored by FNAC (Fonds national d'art contemporain) and the French Committee to commemorate the year 2000.
Mukhin usually uses rangefinder cameras including the Leica M6 and black and white film.
His work has been published in many Russian magazines and in foreign editions such as Rolling Stone, GEO, Elle, Vogue, Le Monde, Libération, Esquire, and Time among others.
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