2010 NOOR-Nikon Masterclass in Documentary Photography Russia

 

A short video recorded at the second noor nikon masterclass in st.petersburg in 2010. This year, the masterclass is due to be held in Bucharest, Romania.

Between March 22 and March 26, 2010, the Nikon-NOOR Academy held a Masterclass in Documentary Photography in Saint Petersburg, Russia. Fifteen young visual storytellers gathered for an inspiring four days of learning and sharing with NOOR photographers Nina Berman, Jan Grarup and Yuri Kozyrev.

During these intensive days, the group reviewed and shared their portfolios, listened to presentations by the photographers, held in-depth discussions on practical and creative issues, and edited their visual stories.

The masterclass has been made possible thanks to the generous support of Nikon Europe.

 

Tomas Kauneckas | Timur Karpov | Viktor Yuliev | Roman Drits | Anna Voitenko | Anahit Hayrapetyan
Yuri Ivaschenko | Mikhail Mordasov | Andrey Rogach | Kirill Savchenkov | Pavel Khailo | Anastasia Tsayder
Vanushkin Alexey | Daria Tuminas | Danil Filippovsky

 

Anahit Hayrapetyan

© Anahit Hayrapetyan. In the early morning Yonoq takes the sheep to the mountains. November 2009, village Khtsaberd, Nagorno Karabakh. This is a single image from the story about the life in the village Khtsaberd after fifteen years of ceasefire of …

© Anahit Hayrapetyan. In the early morning Yonoq takes the sheep to the mountains. November 2009, village Khtsaberd, Nagorno Karabakh. This is a single image from the story about the life in the village Khtsaberd after fifteen years of ceasefire of the Armenian-Azerbaijani war (1988-1994).

 

Anahit Hayrapetyan

Anahit Hayrapetyan, born in 1981, decided to become a photographer after her master degree in Engineering. In 2005-2006 she attended a photojournalism course organized by World Press Photo and Caucasus Media Institute in Yerevan, and in 2009-2010 studied at Danish Media and Journalism School. Currently she is working at Eurasianet.org internet magazine.


Alexey Vanushkin

 

Alexey Vanushkin

Alexey Vanushkin was born in 1988, in Novosibirsk, Russia. He studied art and design in a local art college and worked as an architect.

© Alexey Vanushkin. Young girl at the nightclub Art-Dacha, after a big party. Novosibirsk, Russia. 13.12.2008

© Alexey Vanushkin. Young girl at the nightclub Art-Dacha, after a big party. Novosibirsk, Russia. 13.12.2008


Anna Voitenko

© Anna Voitenko. Carpathian Ukraine. 2006-2008. Village Iza is well-known because all its residents, the local priest and policeman included, are engaged in white wickerwork.

© Anna Voitenko. Carpathian Ukraine. 2006-2008. Village Iza is well-known because all its residents, the local priest and policeman included, are engaged in white wickerwork.

 

Anna Voitenko

I was born in Kiev in Ukraine. I have been photographing since 2004. I came to photography through painting and have been working as a documentary photographer. I have been focused my documentary work on a people’s ordinary life. I work as freelance photographer in various Ukrainian and foreign media. 


Roman Drits

 

Robin Drift

Roman was born in 1986 in Riga, Latvia. He has been photographing since 2004, and is currently living and working in Riga.

© Roman Drits. Landscape with birds. Riga, 2007

© Roman Drits. Landscape with birds. Riga, 2007


Yuri Ivaschenko

© Yuri Ivaschenko / Agency.Photographer.ru. STARAYA TISHANKA. VORONEZH REGION. RUSSIA. 2009. Viktor, a member of Fedor Rybalkin community, near his house. He joined Fedor's disciples with his family in the 1980s.

© Yuri Ivaschenko / Agency.Photographer.ru. STARAYA TISHANKA. VORONEZH REGION. RUSSIA. 2009. Viktor, a member of Fedor Rybalkin community, near his house. He joined Fedor's disciples with his family in the 1980s.

 

Yuri Ivaschenko

Yuri was born in 1983 in Krasnodar, Russia. And has been working as a photographer since 2004. In 2007 he became a photographer for Agency.Photographer.ru. He is currently working on long-term photography projects and also in assignments from magazines.


Timur Karpov

 

Timur Karpov

Timur was born in 1990 in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. He studied in the Tashkent State Institute of Arts, Film Cameraman faculty, in 2006-2007. in 2005 he won an Honorary Mention on the international photographic competition UNEP. In 2008 he participated on the exhibition "Photographers of Uzbekistan" CEH "Manej" in St. Petersburg, Russia.

© Timur Karpov. "Get smoked to the stars" from the photo story "The Unseen theater". "The Unseen theater" is a story about the backstage of one of the most outstanding modern theaters in Central Asia, The "Ilkhom" theater of Mark Weil.

© Timur Karpov. "Get smoked to the stars" from the photo story "The Unseen theater". "The Unseen theater" is a story about the backstage of one of the most outstanding modern theaters in Central Asia, The "Ilkhom" theater of Mark Weil.


Tomas Kauneckas

© Tomas Kauneckas. At the end of 2002, the news that Lithuania was joining the European Union effectively made Kaliningrad an island within the New Europe. Separated from the bulk of Russia, of which it was and still is a part, Kaliningrad is a town…

© Tomas Kauneckas. At the end of 2002, the news that Lithuania was joining the European Union effectively made Kaliningrad an island within the New Europe. Separated from the bulk of Russia, of which it was and still is a part, Kaliningrad is a town and a region adrift. Still linked to Russia by powerful ties of nationalism and sentiment it is also separated from it by its geographical location and its special economic needs. This feature explored the town and the wider region of Kaliningrad, focusing on the people who lived there. In February 2003, the pictures were published in the Herald Magazine: an award winning weekly magazine published in Glasgow, UK.

 

Tomas Kauneckas

Tomas Kauneckas is one of the most recognized Lithuanian photographers. He started his career as press photographer working for regional and national newspapers when he was 15 years old. Presently he works as art director in “Versus” magazine. Tomas has also been assigned by international photo agencies, as well as British newspapers and commercial magazines. 


Mikhail Mordasov

 

Mikhail Mordasov

I was born in 1982 in Veliky Novgorod. I photographed almost all of the Novgorod region. I moved to Sochi in April 2009, worked in the regions of Russia. I am currently photographing in the Southern Federal District. I've studied in Law School, and have been seriously taking pictures for the past three years. My images have been published in Rossiyskaya Gazeta, Izvestia, Russian Reporter, Ogonek, Geo, and Around the World. I am a staff photographer for news agencies RIAnovosti.

© Mikhail Mordasov / FocusPictures. An officer of Russian Federal Migration Service checks documents of Uzbek illegal workers outside Novgorod, one of the main city on the road M-10 between Moscow and Saint-Petersburg. Federal Migration Service orga…

© Mikhail Mordasov / FocusPictures. An officer of Russian Federal Migration Service checks documents of Uzbek illegal workers outside Novgorod, one of the main city on the road M-10 between Moscow and Saint-Petersburg. Federal Migration Service organizes inspections like this and deports illegal foreign workers to their countries of origin.


Kirill Savchenkov

© Kirill Savchenkov. Untitled/ Moscow. Victory park. June 2008.

© Kirill Savchenkov. Untitled/ Moscow. Victory park. June 2008.

 

Kirill Savchenkov

Kirill was born in 1987, in Moscow. In 2004 he engaged in photography, the same year he entered the Moscow Technical University of Communication and Computer Science on the speciality of radio physicist. He is currently attending Rodchenko School of Photography. Kirill lives and works in Moscow.


Andrey Rogach

 

 Andrey Rogach

I was born in 1987 in Smorgon, where I live up till now. I attended Smorgon art school. In 2007 I graduated in Advertising from the Moscow State Technical School of Technology, Economics and Jurisprudence. In 2009 I Cooperated with the publications: "Regional newspaper» (http://rh.by/) and "Solidarity» (http://gazetaby.com/)

© Andrey Rogach. Ashmian Gypsies lead a settled life (2009). In 1956 Khrushchev issued a decree that forbade Gypsies roam. These gypsies settled in the Belarusian village Аshmiany, where they began a new life.

© Andrey Rogach. Ashmian Gypsies lead a settled life (2009). In 1956 Khrushchev issued a decree that forbade Gypsies roam. These gypsies settled in the Belarusian village Аshmiany, where they began a new life.


Daria Tuminas

© Daria Tuminas. July, 14, 2006. A line in a rural shop. New products are brought once a week, people gather in shops, queue, talk, gossip. Russia, Vologodskaja area, Sjamzhenskij region, village Pigilinskaja.

© Daria Tuminas. July, 14, 2006. A line in a rural shop. New products are brought once a week, people gather in shops, queue, talk, gossip. Russia, Vologodskaja area, Sjamzhenskij region, village Pigilinskaja.

 

Daria Tuminas

Daria Tuminas was born in 1984. He graduated from St. Petersburg State University, Faculty of Philology, major in Folklore Studies. He is currently attending an MA of SPbSU, program "Mythology and Folklore", and also a Photojournalism course at The House of Journalism. He has been photographing since 2006. He is based in St. Petersburg, Russia.


Danyl Filippovskyy

 

Danyl Filippovskyy

I was born in 1980 in Ukraine, graduated from Kiev Polytechnic University in 2002 with a degree in computer sciences. I became a documentary photographer in 2003, mainly concentrating on human life aspects in former Soviet Union countries and Eastern Europe. During last 5 years I've worked on projects in Ukraine, Georgia, Armenia, Russia, Turkey, Romania, Abkhazia, Poland, United States and France.

© Danyl Filippovskyy. A birthday party celebration in a local family (Kiev, Ukraine, January 2007).

© Danyl Filippovskyy. A birthday party celebration in a local family (Kiev, Ukraine, January 2007).


Pavel Khailo

© Pavel Khailo / PHL Photo Agency. A woman leaving the rally of Ukrainian Communist party (Lugansk, Ukraine, 2009).

© Pavel Khailo / PHL Photo Agency. A woman leaving the rally of Ukrainian Communist party (Lugansk, Ukraine, 2009).

 

Pavel Khailo

I’m 21 years old. I studied journalism in the university and I’m seriously interested in photojournalism and documentary photography, because I think that photography is the best way to explore the world around.


Anastasia Tsayder

 

Anastasia Tsayder

Anastasia Tsaider was born in 1983 in Saint-Petersburg. She studied at the Faculty of Photojournalistics in the name J.A.Galperin at Saint-Petersburg's Union of Journalists (2007-2009). She took part in several collective exhibitions: "Who am I?" (Loft Project "Etajhy"), "Young russian photography: connections" (Library of Mayakovsky, 2009).

In 2009 she participated in an online workshop "Objective reality" (with Yuri Kozyrev as a teacher). Her work has been published in the magazine "Rovesnik", and newspapers "Social politics" and "Sobesednik". She is mostly interested in long-term projects dedicated to the influences of pollution on life in Russia and social problems related to this issue.

© Anastasia Tsayder. Nadezhda Kutepova human rights defender and daughter of a liquidator. Nadezhda render law help for Muslimovo village inhabitants in submitting to the European Court. Chelyabinsk region, Ozersk city.

© Anastasia Tsayder. Nadezhda Kutepova human rights defender and daughter of a liquidator. Nadezhda render law help for Muslimovo village inhabitants in submitting to the European Court. Chelyabinsk region, Ozersk city.


Victor Yuliev

© Victor Yuliev. Portrait of two homeless in an army tent. February, 2009. Saint Petersburg, Russia. For winter time the charity organization Noch lezhka places a large military tent in the city to host around 70 homeless people for overnight rest. …

© Victor Yuliev. Portrait of two homeless in an army tent. February, 2009. Saint Petersburg, Russia. For winter time the charity organization Noch lezhka places a large military tent in the city to host around 70 homeless people for overnight rest. From the story "Sleepers". To sleep well is more important for human being than food or water. Absence of sleep even during one night influences the attention and visual perception in a very negative way. And permanent shortage of sleep can cause psychic disorders.

 

Victor Yuliev

Victor was born in Leningrad (former name of Saint-Petersburg) in 1981. After an unsuccessful attempt to study journalism became interested in photography. In 2007-2009 he  studied photojournalism at the Faculty of Photojournalists named after Y.A.Galperin. Since 2009 he's been working as a freelance photographer.