Misha Maslennikov

Documentary Photographer @ Noga Creative Union / Based in Odesa

        Misha Maslennikov was born in 1964 in the Dobroe settlement close to Moscow. Since 2013 constantly lives in the Odessa city, Ukraine.         1981-83 – Misha studied at Art School... read on
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Coverage Regions: Europe Middle East
Languages Spoken: Russian
Years of experience: More than 10

        Misha Maslennikov was born in 1964 in the Dobroe settlement close to Moscow. Since 2013 constantly lives in the Odessa city, Ukraine.

        1981-83 – Misha studied at Art School #75, got the qualification of architectural designer-constructor.
        2002-05 – he studied at theological department of Saint Tikhon's Orthodox University.
        1985-92 – he worked in reproduction centre of the State Publishing House the Press (previous name Pravda) as a retoucher and an operator of electronic color splitting and color correcting machine. At the same time Misha Maslennikov got experienced in the following fields: photo reproduction, contacts, photomontage, he was busy in graphic, fonts and painting in art studious of Moscow painters Dmitry and Andrey Bisty, Vladimir Brainin.
        1993-98 – he worked as an assistant of head of printing department at the design agency of the company Videoservice, became professional in control of printing process, graphic design, pre-printing photo preparation.
        2001-02 – he was engaged as an art-director in the project Byzantium.ru of charity organization – The Centre of Help to Development of Orthodox art Byzantine.
        2008 – he triggered the arrangement of photoclub under Feofaniya Gallery.
        Since 2006 – member of the Noga Creative Union.
        Since 2010 – member of the Russian Photounion.
        Since 2010 – member of the Russian Geography Society.


        Awards & Honors:

        2022 — 3rd Prize of the BarTur Photo Award 2022, Faces of Humanity (Series) theme.
        2022 — Finalist of the World.Report Award | Documenting Humanity 2022, Master Award category.
        2021 — Honourable Mention of the 2021 ZEKE Award for Documentary Photography, Social Documentary Network/SDN.
        2021 — Finalist of the LensCulture Art Photography Awards 2021.
        2018 — Grand Prix of the XXIV International Photo Festival Narva Autumn 2018.
        2012 — Grand Prix of the All-Russian photo contest “Living Ocean and Coastal Zone” of the Press Center of the Russian exposition at the World EXPO-2012 and Science and Life magazine.


        Solo exhibitions:

        2022 The Don Steppe, The XIII edition of The Festival of Ethical Photography, Palazzo Modignani, Lodi, Italia.
        2021 The Don Steppe, 9. Foto Art Festival named after Andrzej Baturo, Gallery of Photography B& B, Bielsko-Biała, Poland.
        2018 Chukotka is a land of loneliness, XXIV International Photo Festival Narva Autumn 2018, House of Culture Rugodiv, Narva, Estonia;
        — “Ruunipizza”, Tartu, Estonia.
        2013, 2018 Ordinary Photos, Odessa Museum Western & Eastern Art, Odessa, Ukraine;
        — Art Space, Vitebsk Center of the Modern Art, Vitebsk, Belarus.
        2012-13 3 Outskirts: Karelia, Altai, Chukotka, GM Photo Gallery, Yekaterinburg, Russia;
        — Russian Museum of Photography, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia;
        — The First Sevastopol International Photo Festival, Sevastopol, Ukraine.
        2008WE, Feofaniya Gallery, Moscow, Russia.


        Group exhibitions:

        2022 PhotoTOP. Still Life 2022, Gallery of Classical Photography, Moscow, Russia.
        2022 World View: ZEKE Award Winners 2021, Bridge Gallery, Cambrige, USA.
        2021 ZEKE Award Winners 2021, Photoville anniversary festival, Brooklyn Bridge Park — Pier 3, NY, USA.  
        2021 Noga 15 years old, VI International festival of photography “Fotokrok” named Sigismund Yurkovsky, Vitebsk Center of the Modern Art, Vitebsk, Belarus.  
        2021 FotoTOP 2021, Gallery of Classical Photography, Moscow, Russia.
        2020 Noga Creative Union, Thin Line Photo Festival, Odessa Museum Western & Eastern Art, Odessa, Ukraine.
        2016 Life without pomp and parade, Central library M.Y. Lermontov, St. Petersburg, Russia.
        2012 Urban Environment, International Photofestival “Photo Days Ogre 2012”, Ogre Cultural Center, Museum of History and Art, Ogre, Latvia.
        2012-19 Our Stories, Series “We’ll manage anything!”, Project of the Mobile Photo Exhibition The Photographic Angle, London — Bristol — Swindon — Birmingham — Crowley — Slough — Bracknell — Chester — Leeds — Newcastle — Stockport — Croydon — Uxbridge — Milton Keynes — Peterborough — Fareham — Maidenhead — Solihull — Exeter — Manchester — Weybridge — Southend-on-Sea — Reading — Coventry — Camberley — Bracknell — Grays — Cardiff, United Kingdom.
        2012-21 200 Faces, Project of the Mobile Photo Exhibition The Photographic Angle, London — Bristol — Swindon — Birmingham — Durham — Farnborough — Camberley — Crowley — Greenford — Uxbridge —Chester — Leeds — Manchester — Maidenhead — Southend-on-Sea — Weybridge — Peterborough — Coventry — Bracknell — Reading — Chelmsford — Maidenhead — Ascot — Feltham — Milton Keynes, United Kingdom.
        2012-13 Birthmarks on the map, Australian Photofestival Head On, gallery The Muse at the Institute of Photography TAFE NSW, Sydney, Australia;
        — The Photo Industry Fair PMA, Melbourne Exhibition Center, Melbourne, Australia.
        2011-14 Invisible Country, Project Liberty.SU, White Cube Gallery, Omsk, Russia;
        — Tomsk Regional Museum of Local History, Tomsk, Russia;
        — Municipal Art Gallery, Kostroma, Russia;
        — Polar Photo Fest, Norilsk Art Gallery, Norilsk, Russia.  
        2011 We live in Russia, CDC of the South-Western Administrative District, Moscow, Russia.
        2010No distinction, MArchI, Moscow, Russia.
        2008-09Territory of Joy, Rumyantsev Mansion (branch of the State Museum of the History of St. Petersburg), St. Petersburg, Russia;
        — Exhibition Hall of the Union of Artists, Pskov, Russia;
        — Center for Orthodox Culture, Bialystok, Poland;
        — Russian House of Science and Culture, Berlin, Germany;
        — Voronezh Regional Art Museum. I.N. Kramskoy, Voronezh, Russia;
        — The scientific and cultural center of the museum-reserve Mikhailovskoye, Pskov region, Russia;
        — The Nevskaya Curtain of the Peter and Paul Fortress, St. Petersburg, Russia.
        2009My Favorite Province, Center for Culture and Art “Meridian”, Moscow, Russia;
        — Russian Center for Science and Culture, Bratislava, Slovak Republic.
        2007Imagine Russia, Brooklyn Coffee & Tea House Gallery, Providence, Rhode Island, USA.
Education
1983 — Art School #75, got the qualification of architectural designer-constructor
2005 — Theological department of Saint Tikhon’s Orthodox University