Photography: Sergei Lobovikov
Orphaned early, Sergei Lobovikov (= Сергей Лобовиков, 1870-1941) was sent at the age of 14 from a village to the provincial town of Vyatka (now Kirov), where he would later become an honorary citizen. He was meant to be trained as a shopkeeper and photographer. The rest is history that you should mostly see (he never became a shopkeeper).
Портреты крестьян, крестьянский быт / Portraits of peasants, peasant life – 1900
(Nigel Fowler Sutton, 2018, 4 m)
Русские фотографы. Сергей Лобовиков. Sergey Lobovikov – Photography
(Serge Bogdanov, 2016, 8 m)
“Светопись сердцем”. Фильм о фотографе Сергее Лобовикове.
(Arte.M, 2020, 24 m)
See more in this Специальный репортаж «Мастер светописи. Сергей Лобовиков» (ГТРК Вяткаm, 2020, 10 m).
See/read
- «Мужики и бабы» Сергея Лобовикова. Штрихи к портрету легендарного вятского фотографа (2017)
- Сергей Лобовиков. Портреты крестьян, крестьянский быт (Fra Евгений, 2015)
- Сергей Лобовиков. Вятский «мужицкий фотограф» (Vyatkawalks.ru)
- Sergey Alexandrovich Lobovikov (Artchive.ru)
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