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Igor Moukhin (born 1961) has been working as an independent photographer since 1989. Having started his career covering the lives of underground musicians in Soviet Russia, Moukhin's focus has changed into a more extensive study of the Soviet and post-Soviet space. His work has appeared in numerous Russian and international publications, and solo exibitions were held in The Moscow House of Photography and the State Russian Museum in St.
Petersburg. The photographer's work can be admired in, amongst others, the public collections of The Museum of Modern Art, New York, The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., The State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris. He is based in Moscow and besides continuing his practice as a photographer, he lectures at Rodchenko School of Photography. Using his unique and familiar style, Moukhin reconstructs and explores the reality of post-Soviet society in his native Moscow.
The images expose the public and private lives of various strata of citizens, different kinds of political, public or artistic groups and subcultures. This way, the book covers the great epoch of changes and course of life of numerous generations of Muscovites that lived through this twenty-five year period of change and hope. The book also contains an essay by the famous contemporary Russian writer Zakhar Prilepin.