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Igor Tereshkov

Photographer

Igor Tereshkov

Oil and Moss

Near Surgut in Russkinskaya vlg. lives Antonina Tevlina from Khanty people her parents still live an indigenous way of life. Nomadize and grazing reindeers at their ancestral territory of about 600 hectares, they faced a new problem oil producers came to their land.
About 50% of Russian oil produced in KhMAO, licensed areas often coincide with places of residence of indigenous people. I think that climate changes and fossil fuels developing primarily affects those who are most vulnerable, those who receive in fact the least benefit from use of this resources.
There is about 1.5 million tons of oil are poured out annually to the environment in Russian, this figure is approximately twice the volume of the spill in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010.
Shot on 35mm film, oil-containing liquid from spills was used at the stage of film developing . Oil randomly destroys gelatinous “flesh” of film deform it with holes and scratches exactly as harmed environment deformed under the oil spillage.

Igor Tereshkov

Moscow based artist and photographer (b.1989 Energodar, USSR Ukraine). Working in documentary and post-documentary photography mediums, experimenting with different photo process and alternative film developing. Researching themes of ecology, environment and indigenous people. Recipient of Santa Fe CENTER Grant in 2019, Direct look photo contest winner, been nominated to Photography Grant in 2018. Study documentary photography and photojournalism, at School of Modern Photography Docdocdoc in Saint-Petersburg, since 2018 study on course «Experiences of Contemporary Photography».