Igor Moukhin
Igor Vladimirovich Mukhin (Russian Игорь Владимирович Мухин; born November 19, 1961 in Moscow in the Soviet Union ) is a Russian photographer.
Life
Mukhin worked after high school in a Soviet Planning Institute. In the years 1985 and 1986 he attended classes at the famous Moscow photographer Alexandr Lapin. In the following years he worked as a photographer with known Soviet rock musicians of the Perestrojkazeit as Viktor Tsoi, Boris Grebenshchikov and Pyotr Mamonov.
In 1987, Mukhin his first solo exhibition at the Lomonosov University in Moscow. Since 1989 he has been a freelance photographer. The mid-1990s he worked on documentaries about the city of Moscow and the provinces of Russia. In 1996 he accepted a position as a guest speaker at the International Festival Interfoto in Moscow. In 1999, he was able to complete as part of preparations for the millennium in 2000 with a grant from the Mayor of Paris, a series of photographs of lovers in Paris.
Mukhin works mainly with black and white films and used as a Leica M6. In addition to his monographs have been his work in magazines and newspapers at home and abroad, as published, for example, Rolling Stone, Geo, Elle, Vogue, Le Monde, Libération, Esquire and Time.
Monographs
- Igor Moukhin. Photographies 1987-2011. By Christian Gattinoni, Bahia Allouache. Éditions Loco, Paris 2012, ISBN 978-2-919507-12-2.
- My Moscow: Photographs 1985-2010. with an essay by Sachar Prilepin. Benteli Verlag, Bern, Switzerland 2012 ISBN 978-3-7165-1722-2.
- Avoir 20 ans a Moscou. with a text by G. Saffrais. Editions Alternatives, Paris 1998, ISBN 2-86227-170-5.