It was Joseph Beuys who has presented a concise but comprehensive art-manifesto: “Show your wounds”.

When I started working on the topic of war conflicts, it became my pressure point for various biographical reasons. Although, “war conflict” is a vast topic in which you can easily get “lost”, I have found my course: a big theme of a small man. Global politics, ‘a clash of titans’, under whose “feet” there are usually regular people with their families, relatives, housing and household problems. Yes, they also have to answer big questions like: what the Motherland is for me, what my nationality is, what defines my nationality and who I am in general. How to save the close ones? Where to flee and does it make sense? Is there a possibility? All that is happening in the atmosphere of fear, in the smoke of burning houses and destinies. “Why me? Why at me?” are beating repeatedly inside and it is out of human comprehension to find him/herself on the pages of a history book, in the news report or feel yourself a “subject” with the follow up helplessness and confusion.

And here every photographer is somehow borrowing form the “nature”, capturing it with the camera. As this situation is a priori defined by the profession, it is not common to return the “debts”. Though, intuitively, it became clear only after, I have come up with creating a special atmosphere, somewhat fragile and barely visible separate quasi-world for my characters, somewhere between the reality and a photo fact, a peculiar art space where they can continue their existence as the main heroes.

This and as well the awareness space in the first place are used for myself. In this space, the feeling of the time is completely different: instead of the usual ultra-speed of the news we have lingering moments, when you always have a chance to reconsider, “replay”, understand something this time. You can do it without excessive moralizing, playing out of the tune with the pathos, but through felling and experiencing.

Now, being at the beginning of something entirely new for me, I wouldn’t want to make loud statements and set myself some global tasks. But exploring big topics, you couldn’t help but keep asking questions if you have the rights, if you have said more, or in a different way, or better than those who have “spoke” before you. There are not only numerous colleagues, photographers, legendary predecessors or just scrupulous professionals, but also philosophers, writers, artists, directors…A GREAT THEME. To find your own intonation means to find your own “voice” in a multimillion choir, it can sound not so contrasting, but I want to believe that these series are just the beginning. The beginning of my way into the borderline realism, implying not scream but whisper, plunging into the severe irreversibility of a new global reality.

2023— Xposure Festival, Independent photojournalist Award, UAE, 2nd Prize

2021 — Direct Look photo contest, FOTODOC Center for Documentary Photography, Russia, 1st Prize

2019 — Direct Look photo contest, FOTODOC Center for Documentary Photography, Russia, 2nd Prize

2017 —The Prix de la Photographie PX3, France, 1st Prize

2017 — Life Framer Photography Award, USA, 1st Prize

2017 — Circle of Life contest, International Photo festival “Vilnius Photo Circle”, Lithuania, Finalist

2016 — Bourse Du Talent, France, Winner

2016 — Prix International des Nouvelles Ecritures, France, Winner

2016 — Circle of Life contest , International Photo festival “Vilnius Photo Circle”, Lithuania, Winner

2016 — Pictures of the Year International (POYI), USA, Award of Excellence

2016 — Bayeux-Calvados Award for War Correspondents, France, Finalist

2015 — LensCulture Visual Storytelling Awards, USA, 1st Prize

2015 — Kontinent photography Awards, Turkey, Honorable mentions

2015 — Direct Look photo contest, FOTODOC Center for Documentary Photography, Russia, 2nd Prize

2015 — Leica Oscar Barnack Award, Germany, Finalist

2015 — Sony World Photography Awards, UK, 2nd Prize in the current affairs category

2015 — Kolga Award, Kolga Tblisi Photo, Georgia, 1st Prize in the reportage category

2015 — DAYS Japan International Photojournalism Awards, Japan, 2nd Prize

2015 — China International Press photo contest (CHIPP), 1st Prize in the War & Disaster News Singles and 1st Prize in the War & Disaster News Stories

2014 — Professional Photographer of the Year Contest, UK, 1st Prize in the News category

2014 — China International Press photo contest (CHIPP), 1st Prize in the Portraits category and 2nd Prize in the People in the News category

2014 — Silver Camera contest, Russia, Winner in “Faces” nomination

2013 — Kandinsky Prize in the field of contemporary art, Russia, Nominee

2013 — Sebastopol International photo festival, Ukraine, 1st Prize

2013 — China International Press photo contest (CHIPP), 3d Prize in the War & Disaster News Stories

2013 — International photo festival “Photoparade in Uglich», Russia, 1st & 2nd Prize

2013 — Circle of Life contest , International Photo festival “Vilnius Photo Circle”, Lithuania, Finalist

2012 — Efremov photojournalism contest, Russia, 1st Prize

2012 — Black and White Spider Awards, USA, Nominee

2010 — Knokke-Heist photo festival, Belgium, The Silver Award

2024 — Solo exhibition, Xposure International photo festival, UAE

2023— Xposure Festival, Independent photojournalist Award, UAE, 2nd Prize

2021 — Solo exhibition, International Photography Festival PHOTO IS:RAEL, Israel

2020 — Solo exhibition, International Photography Festival PHOTO IS:RAEL, Israel

2019 — Solo exhibition, International biennial of photography Photolux, Lucca, Italy

2016 — Exhibition of the Bourse de Talent winners, National Library of France, Paris

2015 — Exhibition of the ANI-PIXPALACE AWARD winners, Paris, France

2015 — Group exhibition “Urban Maze”, Kunstwerk Nippes Gallery, Cologne, German

2014 — Group exhibition “Crisis in Ukraine”, Coningsby Gallery, London, UK

2014 — Solo exhibition “Standby”in the international photo festival “Photoparade”, Uglich, Russia

2013 — Group exhibition of Kandinsky Prize nominees, Moscow, Russia

2022 — Artist talk FOTODOC Center for Documentary Photography/ Moscow, Russia

2022 — Jury member of the Andrei Stenin international photo contest / Moscow, Russia

2022 — Lecture at Young photographers of Russia Festival / Kaluga, Russia

2020 — Jury member of the VOOH FOTO FEST / Chittagong, Bangladesh

2018 — Artist talk «Donbass. Another side of the conflict» at Journalism on Stage / Berlin, Germany

2018 — Workshop and lecture, Embassy of the Netherlands / Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan

2017 — Workshop and Artist talk at Metenkov’s House Museum / Yekaterinburg, Russia

2017 — 2022 Lecture at Young photographers of Russia Festival / Kaluga, Russia

2017 — Workshop and Artist talk at Metenkov’s House Museum / Yekaterinburg, Russia

2017 — Workshop and lecture at Stavropol state University / Stavropol, Russia