Photography
Igor Moukhin / Christian Gattinoni
Igor Mukhin is one of Russia’s greatest photojournalists. He had not yet published a monograph in France retracing his photographic career. This book, therefore, presents in some sixty double-page spreads the photographer’s journey through Russia’s major transformations. Born in the 1960s, he lived through the significant upheavals in the country: from the Khrushchev era and the end of the Soviet regime to Perestroika and the establishment of new social norms.
Part of his work finds in contemporary society signs and figures that marked the Soviet period: statues, effigies, and monuments of a bygone era intersect with scenes where reality is never explicitly shown but is often distanced by the presence of materials or objects that act as screens. His black and white photographs fall somewhere between a certain tradition of French humanist photography and that of a distinctly American street photography. Moukhin positions himself as a close observer of his fellow citizens: the distance he maintains from his subjects defines his style, a detachment that is as benevolent as it is amused and critical.
Igor Moukhin, 17 x 24 cm, 112 pages, approximately 60 duotone reproductions, hardcover with matte lamination, French/Russian
Co-published with the city of Kremlin-Bicêtre
Graphic design: Danish Pastry Design
