Igor Vladimirovich Muchin

Igor Muchin (1999)

Igor Wladimirowitsch Muchin ( Russian Игорь Владимирович Мухин ; born November 19, 1961 in Moscow in the Soviet Union ) is a Russian photographer.

Life

After high school, Muchin worked in a Soviet planning institute. In 1985 and 1986 he attended classes with the well-known Moscow photographer Alexander Lapin . In the following years he worked as a photographer with well-known Soviet rock musicians of the perestroika era , such as Viktor Zoi , Boris Grebenchtschikow and Pyotr Mamonow .

In 1987 Muchin had his first solo exhibition at Lomonosov University in Moscow. He has been a freelance photographer since 1989. In the mid-1990s he was working on documentaries about the city of Moscow and the provinces of Russia. In 1996 he followed a call as a guest speaker at the international festival InterFoto in Moscow. In 1999, as part of the preparations for the turn of the millennium, he was able to complete a photo series about lovers in Paris with a grant from the Mayor of Paris .

Muchin mainly works with black and white films and uses, for example, a Leica M6 . In addition to his monographs, his work has been published in magazines and newspapers at home and abroad, such as B. Rolling Stone , Geo , Elle , Vogue , Le Monde , Liberation , Esquire and Time .

Monographs

• "Just pie in the sky". Text by Bastien Manac'h . Editions Bergger. Paris. 2017 [1]
• «Weekend». The Treemedia publishing house, Moscow. 2017 [2] [3]
• «Calculation». The Treemedia publishing house, Moscow. 2017 [4]
• "I saw the rock-n-roll". The lyrics: "Sandalov Feliks", "Ekaterina Sujewa". The Treemedia publishing house, Moscow. 2016 [5]
• Igor Moukhin. Photographies 1987-2011 . Text 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 .
• Born in the SSSR . with a text by Jekaterina Degot and Steve Yates. I. Gusev, Moscow 2005.
• Avoir 20 ans a Moscou . with a text by G. Saffrais. Éditions Alternatives, Paris 1998, ISBN 2-86227-170-5 .

Solo exhibitions

• 1994: Skamejki , XL Gallery, Moscow.
• 1996: Life in the City . Lithuanian Photo Museum, Riga, Lithuania.
• 1997: Soviet Epoch: Benches and Monuments , Photohouse, Riga, Lithuania.
• 2002: Moscou - Paris , Moscow House of Photography , Moscow.
• 2003: Contemporary Moscow Photography . Anahita Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA.
• 2003: Moscow youth in the 3rd millennium . Moscow Days Berlin, Kulturbrauerei , Berlin.
• 2012: La mia Mosca . Festival Fotografia Europea 2012. San Pietro Cloisters. Reggio Emilia, Italy.
• 2013: Rétrospective «La Russie d'Igor Moukhin, photographies de 1987 à 2012» . Grand Réservoir de L'Hôpital de Bicêtre , Le Kremlin-Bicêtre . Festival RussenKo 2013, France.
• 2015: MOSKWA_2, La Bohème , Galerie Ljuda, Saint Petersburg.

Web links

• Website of the photographer