2010 NOOR-Nikon Masterclass in Documentary Photography Russia
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
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.
Anna Voitenko
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.
Yuri Ivaschenko
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.
Tomas Kauneckas
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.
Kirill Savchenkov
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/)
Daria Tuminas
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.
Pavel Khailo
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.
Victor Yuliev
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.