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Irina Popova Information

Contacts:

Popovaira@yandex.ru

www.irinapopova.net

+31647498983

Born:

1986, Tver, Russia

Education:

2004-2009 Tver State University, Journalism faculty

2008-2010 The Rodchenko Moscow School of Photography and Multimedia, specialization – Documentary photography, masters – Oleg Klimov and Irina Meglinskaya

2008-2009 The Educational Program of Online Workshops “Objective Reality”, masters: O. Klimov, I. Meglinskaya, A. Gronsky, R. Effendi, A. Polikanov, L. Perkins, M. Regnier etc.

2008 Moscow Academy of Classic Photography, course “Street photography”, tutor – Anton Gorbachev

2009 workshop “Social Portrait”, master Rena Effendy

2008-2009 other workshops and master-classes by U.Kozyrev, Pieter Ten Hoopen, Platon, Erica Larsen, A. Kostyukov, A. Chernov, A. Lapin, S. Pojarskaya, A. Kitaev, I. Muhin, A. Kuznetsov etc.

2009 “Documentary Design”, Tutor – Koen Gurts, during the Summer Photography School in Minsk, Belarus

2010 “Bookbinding”, The Open University, Breda, the Netherlands

2011 a series of workshops by Magnum Photographers Chris Anderson, Mark Power, Chen-Chi Chang and Georgy Pinhasov

Prizes and Awards:

2010 the Scholarship of the Russian Union of Photographers

2010 the 2^nd prize of the Volga Biennale of Photography for “LTP”

2009 “The Best Photographer of Russia” in the category “The Best Photostory”

2009 the Prize of Fund of Development of Photojournalism, Russia

2009 honourable mention of UNICEF for “Another Family” project.

2008 Prize of Volga Biennale 2008 for photoproject “Derbejki. The Village on the Edge of the World”, Nijny Novgorod, Russia

2008 Prize of the contest “Without the Barriers” devoted to the problems of the disabled

2008 Samara, the gold medal of the Delphic Games of World, nomination “Photography”, for photoproject “Another family”, Moscow, Russia

2008 the gold medal of the Delphic Games of Russia, nomination “Photography”, for photoproject “Luli gypsies” , Novosibirsk, Russia

2007 the gold medal of the Delphic Games of Russia, nomination “Photography”, for photoproject “The Military Hospital”, Yaroslavl, Russia

2006 the gold medal of the Delphic Games of UIS, nomination “Photography”, for photoproject “The National Opera”, Astana, Kazakhstan

2006 Krasnoyarsk, the gold medal of the Delphic Games of Russia, nomination “Photography”, for photoproject “The Bikers”

Personal Photoexhibitions:

2011 “Saying goodbye to Kezhma”, curator Irina Ruzina, Chernigov Photofest, Chernigov, Ukraine

2011 “Another Family”, Photoquai Biennale, curator Francoise Hugier, Paris, France

2010 Zerkalo Project, La Librairie Saint-Jean-Baptiste, Quebec, Canada

2010 “Another Family”, curator Eric Toubiana, l'Université Paris Diderot, Paris, France

2010, “10 Days During the War” as a part of L.A.F. project during the Nights of Photography at Tbilisi PhotoFest, Georgia

2010 “Another Family” during the Recontres d’Arles festival, Arles, France

2010 “Syberia”, Valckenberg Park, Breda, the Netherlands

2009 “Cuba is near”. the House of Metrologist, Mendeleevo, Russia

2009 “Will the Russian Village Survive?”, curator B. Mikhailov, The Art center of the Gorky Library, Tver, Russia

2008 “Another Family”, curator Oleg Klimov, Photodepartament, S.- Petersburg, Russia

2008 “A Place on the Earth”, Art-center Garage, Mendeleevo, Russia

2008 “The Heroines of a Western, Tver Officer House, Tver, Russia

2007 “World in the Glass Wardrobe”, The Liza Chaikina Museum, Tver, Russia

Selected group exhibitions and photofestivals:

2011 the Open Ateliers, curator Narcisse Tordoir, Rijksakademie, Amsterdam, the Netherlands

2011 Liquid Motions project, Utrect, the Netherlands

2011 “The Day when My Day Began” at “Weg Weg Weg” festival, curator Tim van der Meer, CBKU, Utrecht, the Netherlands

2011 “LTP” at Jugada a 3 Bandas, curator Tevi de la Torre, Aranapoveda gallery, Madrid, Spain

2011 “Antoher Family”, curator Marat Gelman, “Believe in Tver” festival, Tver, Russia

2010 The Festival of Cheap Art, Tver, Russia

2010 “LTP” at The Volga Biennale of Photography, Nizhniy Novgorod, Russia

2010 The Diploma Show of Rodchenko Photography and Multimedia School graduates, curator Olga Sviblova, The Moscow Multimedia Museum, Moscow, Russia

2010 “LTP” at BredaPhoto Open Studio Route, Breda, the Netherlands

2010 Sence and Sencibility in ArtPlay on Yauza, during the Moscow Biennale of Photogrpahy, curator – Ekaterina Lazareva and Kirill Preobrazhensky, Moscow, Russia

2010 “Russians: Photographic Portrait”, curator Liza Fetissova, Orel Gallery, Paris, France

2010 Photokina, the Best Unicef Entries, Cologne, Germany

2009 “The Pursuit of Happiness”, curator Wim Melis. the Noorderlicht festival, Groningen, the Netherlands,

2009 The student exhibition of the Rodchenko Moscow School of Photography and Multimedia

2009 “Young Russian Photography”, curator – Nina Levitina, Manej, S.-Petersburg

2008 “Without Barriers”, the group exhibition about the disabled people, curator Andrey Baskakov, the Photosoyuz gallery, Moscow, Russia

2008 The Young Photographers of Russia, photofestival, The History of Photography Museum, Nijniy Novgorod

2007 International Photo and Cinema Festival “Open Eyes” against racism and xenophobia, S.-Petersburg, Russia

2007 The Young Photographers of Russia, photofestival, The History of Photography Museum, Nijniy Novgorod, Russia

2007 Tver Region Photoexhibition

Photoexpeditions:

2007 Altay – Kazakhstan – Kirgizia

2008 the Caucasus: North Osetia – Ingushetia – Chechnya – Dagestan – Azerbaijan – Georgia. Work on the Georgian armed conflict in august 2008

2009 Cuba

Teaching experience:

2009 Moscow Academy of Classic Photography

2009 Photospace, “The Lonely Hills” festival

2010 “Researcher” The summer school of journalism and science on the base of Russian Reporter magazine

2011 The 8-days workshop on the Chernigov PhotoFest, Chernigov, Ukraine

Publications:

“The Petersburg Peak Hour” newspaper

Magazines: “Russian Reporter”, “Ogoniok”, “Correspndent”, “The flight line”, “The theatre Petersburg”, “F”, “Foto&Video”, “The Sunday Times Magazine”. “Le Photo”

Works in collections

Nijniy Novgorod, Russia, Russian museum of photography

Krasnoyarsk, Russia, The museum of contemporary art

S.-Petersburg, Russia, The State Russian Museum

Links

Web-site of the photographer: www.irinapopova.net

Flickr photostream: http://www.flickr.com/people/13442264@N06/

Column about photography: http://www.photographer.ru/aspects/257.htm

Private Blog: http://rufos.livejournal.com

Photopolygon: http://photopolygon.com/user/102

Youtube stream: http://www.youtube.com/user/snovapopova11

facebook: http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1459011845