Dm. Kiyan 1962 Born in Volgograd, USSR 1987-1991 Moscow University of Culture 1988-2002 Published in Das Magazine, Das Teatre, Facts, ELLE, OM, Harpers Bazaar, Marie Claire, Vogue, Playboy, Toronto Star, Business week, Foto&Video etc Exhibitions:
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PAVEL ANTONOV for VOGUE Russia contributors' page: "Every year
scores of ambitious European fashion photographers move to New York hoping
to make it big in the Big Apple. Many of them end up shacking up in friends'
living-rooms, working as dish-washers or waiters. But most of them don't
get discovered by Donna Karan and wind up two weeks later with their photographs
exhibited in her new DKNY Soho store. That's what happened to photographer
Pavel Antonov who moved to Manhattan two years ago from Moscow where he
had been working for fashion magazines.
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exhibit this autumn at the DKNY boutique included Antonov's new series
of emigres to Manhattan, among them pop artist duo Komar&Melamid on
the roof of their studio and an iconic portrait of painter Yuri Gorbachev
at his 57th Street apartment blanketed in a thick foxcoat. Says Donna Karan
creative director Trey Laird: "Donna and I love that the energy of Antonov's
photos are very much New York. They're quick. They have a pulse to them.
They are not overly posed or overly lighted or overly technical. There's
an immediacy and a freshness as if the photographer took the pictures out
of passion," adding that "everybody is from somewhere. Even a Russian emigrant,
a poet, a porn star, can be a typical New Yorker."Natasha Zinger,
New York, 2001
  Dmitry Plavinsky
Andrey Bartenev
Russian artist,
2002 Russian artist, 2002
  Boris Grebenshikov
Dmitry Smelyantsev
Russian poet
& musician, Russian photographer,
2001 2002
  Slava Mogutin
Polina
Russian artist,
2000 2002
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