Photo: Igor Mukhin
Since the age of sixteen, Игорь Мухин (1961) has been taking photographs. Armed with a Смена-8М camera, he started his journey. So, when he found himself among artists and musicians in the 1980s, he already had a trained eye – and a better camera. Mukhin (sometimes Moukhin) witnessed major changes and began documenting them.
“I felt that the time of ‘change’ had come, and I needed to go and shoot” ( Flashbak, 2018).
To start: explore Igor Mukhin’s work in the series Смотри в тишине (Look in silence). Presented by MAMM (= Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow).
Игорь Мухин | Смотри в тишине
(MAMM, 2020, 5 m)
Moscow
Mukhin lives and works in Moscow, where he teaches at the Rodchenko Art School – officially called the Московская школа фотографии и мультимедиа имени Родченко in Russian.
Игорь Мухин “Моя Москва”
(Игорь Мухин, 2017, 1 m)
More book browsing sessions by the photographer:
- Weekend (2017, 1 m)
- Парадоски (2017, 1 m)
- Рожденные в СССР (2017, 1 m)
- Рожденные в СССР. Дополнительная глава (2016, 2 m)
Moscow by Photographer Igor Mukhin – Игорь Владимирович Мухин
(Eīhwaz, 2016, 4 m)
Fashion, Youth, Rock-’n-Roll
Мода, молодость, рок-н-ролл: андеграунд в объективе Игоря Мухина
(MAMM, 2020, 5 m)
More from MAMM (= Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow) on Mukhin in Экскурсия Игоря Мухина по выставке «Наши 1990-е. Время перемен» (2020, 25 m).
Игорь Мухин. Альтернативная Культура 80-Х
(Игорь Мухин, 2017, 2 m)
Medvedev
A photo taken by Mukhin in 1986 has been sparking debate for years. It features a young Dmitri Medvedev in an undiplomatic pose, or at least someone who strongly resembles him. According to an official statement, it is not the politician – but some are still not convinced.
See/read
- Дмитрий Медведев – рокер от политики: Алена Апина показала как выглядел в юности премьер-министр России (Zen Yandex, 2020)
- Какими были Российские политики в молодости (Zen Yandex, 2018)
- Сергей Пархоменко опубликовал «редкое фото Медведева» 1986 года (812 Online, 2014)
The photo can be viewed at the exhibition (and in the book) Я видел Рок-н-ролл (I saw rock-’n-roll, 2016). The image appears in the following report, with the not-Medvedev individual showing up at 1:13.
More images from the exhibition can be found with Мария Скрипкина (2016, 2 m). Interview and explanation at Fontanka (2016, 16 m, also here) and at РОСФОТО (2016, 1 m). Images from the book shared by Игорь Мухин himself (2017, 1 m), also here.
Фотограф Игорь Мухин представил новую выставку
(LIFE Петербург, 2016, 2 m)
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