Modern and Contemporary Photographers You Should Know
“To me, photography is an art of observation. It’s about finding something interesting in an ordinary place… I’ve found it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them.”
— Elliot Erwitt
“You can look at a picture for a week and never think of it again. You can also look at a picture for a second and think of it all your life.”
— Joan Miró
Alexey Titarenko (1962- )
Born in 1962 at Leningrad, USSR, now Saint Petersburg, Russia. He is a modern photographer that has been influenced by the Russian avant-garde works of Alexander Rodchenko and Kazimir Malevich as well as the Dada art movement.
At the age of fifteen, Alexey Titarenko became the youngest member of the independent photo club Zerkalo, and graduated with honors at the prestigious Department of Cinematic and Photographic Art at Leningrad’s Institute of Culture.
His most iconic work is an exploration of urban spots during and after the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991 and 1992 best known by the name of City of Shadows. These images began in the surroundings of the only public transportation system of the time, the train system. In this work Alexey captured the human condition of ordinary people in a…
