Alexey Titarenko City of shadows

Russia photographer Alexey Titarenko,1983 years at the Leningrad Institute of culture, film and art photography Professional receive degrees. In the 1970 of the 20th century, he began to pick up the camera in photography, and in 1978 became famous Leningrad Zerkalo Photography Club members, organized the first personal exhibition of the same year.

Titarenko has won Switzerland's Musee de l'Elysee in Lausanne, contemporary art centre in St Petersburg and Luxembourg awards issued by bodies such as the Mosaique. His work is income in Europe and the United States the major museums, including Russia National Museum, the Philadelphia Museum of art, Boston Museum of fine arts, Colombia Art Museum, the Houston Art Museum.

Titarenko major works include "city of shadows" (1992-1994), "black and white magic of St Petersburg" (1995-1997) and "still" (1998-1999). In these works, Titarenko has taken a great deal about Russia photos.

series "city of shadows" was taken in 1992-1994, it was just after the dissolution of the Soviet Union. Titarenko autobiography says of this period in Russia "could not be implemented in the hope that people's lives", in his extensive use of slow shutter technology in the creation, deficiency of people walking into a ghostly scene of, the city is showing silence. Of these is the shadow of the photographer like a ghost record real images, is the Soviet Union to Russia left things.

Alexey Titarenko work "city of shadows"