Dima Zverev

"I was born in Moscow and still live here. I am editorial photographer for Moscow City government, member of Union of Photo Artists of Russia. "Russia's Golden Eye -2019". Laureate of Bestphotographer, Best-of-Russia, "Silver Camera" and other competitions".

Entrepreneur, real estate developer, traveler, photographer, one of ByalaArtPhotoFestival founders. "Born in Sverdlovsk (today Ekaterinburg), I have lived in the UK, Canada, Bulgaria. I enjoy travelling, having good conversations, spending time with interesting people. I am mostly into street photography; I believe this genre to be the most interesting and complicated."

"I was born and live in Moscow, IT engineer by trade, photographer by passion. I am a member of Union of Photo Artists of Russia, recipient of Ministry of Culture grants in 2015-2020; the winner of portfolio-review of PhotoVisa international festival (2019). Founder of "Intelligent Photography" Russian Facebook group (3 000 participants). I teach master classes on "Young Russian Photographers" and "PhotoVisa" festivals. Participant of 20 group exhibitions".

Irina Klimenko is an art photographer, curator, mastermind and organizer of the interior photo market "PhotoDecorMarket", founder of the creative agency "1st ArtSpace".

Irina's works are exhibited at international art photography festivals and biennials.
2014: personal exhibition "Sensations", Darwin Museum, Moscow, Russia
2016: personal exhibition "Inner Silence", Arles, France
2017: personal exhibition "Inner Silence", Flacon design plant, Moscow, Russia
2018: exhibition "Read Space", 16th Architecture Biennale, Palazzo Mora, Venice, Italy
2018: personal exhibition "Coordinates: Japan. Space of meanings ", Cultural Foundation "Ekaterina", Moscow, Russia

Books: "Inner Silence", "Qualia".
www.irinaklimenko.ru

Viktor Lyagushkin – National Geographic photographer, Nikon Ambassador, Subal Pro Team member, head of the PHOTOTEAM.PRO, winner of international photo contests. Viktor was born in Moscow in the family of a military man, spent his childhood and school time in Czechoslovakia. Then he returned to Moscow, after school he graduated from the St. Petersburg Theatre Academy as an artist-decorator. He worked in magazines as a layout person, designer, art director. Professional photographer since 1998. In 2003, Viktor took an underwater camera, and soon underwater shooting became his main hobby and favourite work.
Author of the book Orda Cave. Awareness Project, Being a Dolphin, 100 Facts About Dolphins, laureate of the National Underwater World Prize. His solo exhibitions have been successfully exhibited all over the world. For PHOTOTEAM.PRO Viktor is the main organizer, generator of ideas, energy and, of course, a photographer.

Dimitri Bakhtadze, was born 1975 in Leningrad in the USSR and during his school days studied in Zugdidi, Georgia, where the first passion with photography happened.

Then Dimitri moved to live to St. Petersburg and in 2013 graduated from the two years program at photofaculty (http://photofaculty.ru) in St. Petersburg. In photofaculty Dimitri learned photography from some famous photographers like Yana Romanova, Ayar Kuo and Sergey Maksimishin. Now Dimitri lives between two countries: Russia and Georgia. Photography is a hobby and Dimitry shoots exclusively for pleasure. Favorite genres: reportage, street photography and documentary photography.

Vladimir Igorevich Rolov, photojournalist

Born in the South Urals in 1953.

In 1975 graduated as civil engineer and worked in this profession until 1980.
1980 – 1982: photojournalist of the "Soviet Trans-Urals" newspaper, Kurgan, Russia.
1982 – 1985: staff correspondent of the "Soviet Russia" newspaper in Siberia and the Far East.
1985 – 1988: Deputy Head of the Illustration Department of the newspaper "Soviet Russia", Moscow

Vladimir has lived in Germany since 1989.
Until 2016 he worked as a medical photographer in eye medicine (retinal research), since 2016 he has been a freelance photographer.

Author of several books.

Svetlana is a well-known photographer, professor, and curator. Pieces of Svetlana's art are in the collections of the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts (Moscow), the Russian Museum (St. Petersburg), the Museum of Russian Photography (Kolomna), the Union of Lithuanian and Russian Photographers, the Museum of Moscow, as well as in private collections all over the World. Svetlana lives in Moscow and had worked as a leading specialist in the department of photography at the State Russian House of Folk Art for more than 25 years. Secretary of the Photographers Union of Russia, curator of children and youth photography (1988-2014). Curator of exhibition projects. Jury member, participant and prize-winner of international and Russian photo exhibitions, festivals and competitions. 30 personal exhibitions in Russia and abroad. Author of numerous articles and publications on photography. Author of books: "Photobook" (co-authored with A. Agafonov), publishing house "Children's Literature" (1993), "Fotomaster", Moscow, publishing house "Penta" (2001), "School of the photographer. Anthology of Children and Youth Photography ", "Gallery of Photographers", Moscow, publishing house "GALART", "School of the Photographer" (2nd edition, Moscow, publishing house "Indexmarket" 2012). Photography professor at the Russian State University of Humanities, the Academy of Classical Photography, at Izvestia School of Journalism: taught courses "Fundamentals of composition and Stylistics of photography. Conducted seminars and master classes at the School of Contemporary Photography "Photoplay", at the New York Institute of Photography and by invitation in other photography schools and cities Honorary Member of the Union of Photo Artists of Russia, Honored Worker of Culture of the Russian Federation.

Albert lives in Pavlodar, Kazakhstan, and has been involved in photography since 1976.
From 1987 to 1995 he was engaged in commercial photography, now he photographs for pleasure and self-expression. Took part in photography festivals, competitions, exhibitions in France, the USA, Russia, Bulgaria, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan.

Kirill Kozmin is a documentary and travel photographer based in Lund, Sweden. His work has been published in several magazines, presented at exhibitions and photo festivals. He also got recognized in several photo contests, including Best Photographer of 2011, Russia.

Alexander Maslennikov was born in 1965 in Ukhta, Komi ASSR, and, naturally, joined the Timan photo club, where he met Oleg Sizonenko, Sergei Zinoviev, Ivan Kildyushov, Larisa Vokhmina and other northern authors, and has perfectly mastered the film photography. Moving to the mainland, to the center of Russia, caused a rethinking of the ways of reflecting the visual world, and all the previous negatives and prints were burned. Digital photography was initially categorically rejected, but the unstoppable process pushed through a basic camera, then a DSLR, then a crop, and finally a miracle - a cell phone, which today is the main tool for reflecting the image of the world around on the retina of viewers.

Lesya Kim is a street and documentary photographer from Tyumen city, Siberia, Russia.

She is a member of the famous iN-PUBLiC street collective.

Olesia is a winner of many prestigious photography contests (Siena International Awards, Smithsonian Magazine, Italian Street Photography Festival etc.)

Masha Armand is a photographer from Moscow. She is a member of the Russian Union of Art Photographers, works in professional photography education, and has taken part in group exhibitions in the USA, Russia and Israel. Masha travels a lot, writes short stories, and takes pleasure in architecture and modern poetry.

Maxim Korotchenko is an award-winning documentary photographer based in Astrakhan, Russia. Now he is a professional freelancer working for various mass-media and also developing his own photo projects, documenting the daily life of people living in the Lower Volga and focusing on the visual research of the South Russia surroundings.

Anzor is born in 1968 in the city of Tashkent.
Since 1975 he has been permanently living in Bukhara. Anzor was interested in photography since school. The first camera was Smena 8M.
After graduating from the art school in Bukhara, he enters the Tashkent Theater and Art Institute at the faculty of "theatrical scenery". He had then worked as a decorator at the Opera and Ballet Theater named after Alisher Navoi in Tashkent, participated in exhibitions of young artists in the republic.
Since 2006 a passion for photography develops into the main profession. The photo studio "Photo for Documents" becomes a creative laboratory during free time.
Gradually, photo collages are being replaced by documentary and genre photography, which the author does to this day.
The photographer is interested in the everyday life of ordinary people. How they live, what they eat, what they dream about, where they work and how they relax - this is what becomes the subjects of the author's photographs.