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Conceptual Series

Paysage should be a portrait

“A paysage should be a portrait. If it is not quite similar to nature, then what is in it?" These words of the young artist from the “Walk to the Academy of Arts” by the Russian poet Konstantin Batiushkov served as an impetus to the discourse on the borders of graphic genres and on the borders of the abstract and figurative, the figure and the background. In an environment in which it is difficult to separate nature from human intervention, a paysage can be those image which appeals to the nature of visual perception as such. In these photo shots I tried to reach the paysage vision, and assemble complex physiognomy of everyday urban environment with natural, man-made and human components.

Mikhail Grebenshchikov

I'm a photojournalist and bild editor in RBC.ru. Education: Faculty of Journalism of Lomonosov Moscow State University (2015), Docdocdoc (2022) Finalist of the contests "Kolga Tbilisi Photo 2019", "LensCulture B&W awards 2018", "Photomania 2013/2015", PDN Photo Annual 2013, "Silver Camera 2012/2014", "Young photographers of Russia 2014/2018/2019", "The Best of Russia 2013/2018". Participant of group exhibitions: Rotterdam Photo Fair 2022 XL ("Planet Human"), Kolga Tbilisi Photo 2019, "Beyond Boundaries" (Aperture Gallery, New-York), V Biennale of Contemporary Photography (Russian Museum, St. Petersburg), The #Helloicp Project, New York (2015).