Lyudmila Zinchenko (Russia)

Spent her childhood in the village of Peno located near Tver. After studying photography at technical school, she worked several years in Siberia with topographers surveying natural gas fields. Later, she worked as a photo journalist for a number of newspapers. Her current affiliation with the Russian Union of Photographers (Moscow) began in 2000.
The photographs of Zinchenko show a passion for the world around her. Her images catch light in an emotional and spiritual way. Their abounding yet subtle sensuality is difficult to express in words. Everyone who views Zinchinko's images finds themself charmed by quiet beauty.

about

In an original way, Zinchenko's photography reveals the deeper aspects of urbanism invading our lives. Details of everyday life, often gone noticed, become key to her understanding of reality. There is watching and there is seeing and Zinchenko sees life's essence.
Russian Union of Photographers

So strange yet so attractive appears the Russian soul in black and white. In one image we see a mother wearing a cheap flowered dress. Her rough hands are holding a mended sheet across her knees. In another we see a man's knotty hands upon a table cloth burning with sunlight. And in another, the palm of a man rests upon a window ledge, elegant as a piano. Zinchenko shoots  the body; a typical portrait of a man. Yet the man recognizes his fate and his attitude to life is tough.  There is no sweet laziness of the countryside. You notice something strange in these photographs and you begin to shiver. You hear the rumble of the church organ. It's a liturgy glorifying the poor yet blissful life of remote regions.
Nezavisimaya Gazeta

Critics have elaborated on Lyudmila Zinchenko's photographs; drawing parallels to the work of film director Alexander Tarkovski. Her camera obscura technique seizes the world in a blur giving the impression reality is fading away.
The Baltic Time

selected exhibitions

Unobjekjtive Moscow. Photobienalle 2008.Moscow
Balance of Forces, Atelier Damasc, Düsseldorf 2006
Lightwriting, Glaz Gallery/Moscow House of Photography 2005
White Light, Nishni Novgorod 2005 Russia: Capital and Countryside, Russian House, Cairo & Alexandria 2004 Moscow: Four Seasons, Six Images Gallery, Amsterdam 2003 Field of Vision, PhotoSoyuz Gallery, Moscow 2002

awards

Silver Camera, Moscow 2002, 2003 & 2006
First Prize and two Second Prizes, Kodak Master Competition, Moscow 1997

more

agency.photgrapher.ru
six images photo gallery
Moscow House of Photography
Art Strelka Moscow

photography Lyudmila Zinchenko © 2007
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