The Other Shore series
all images © NIKITA PIROGOV

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The Other Shore is a project by Russian photographer and artist NIKITA PIROGOV compiling the last three years of photography, video (based on the idea of slow-motion), performance, sound and objects.

Photography is like a glue. It’s possible to combine a lot of different things there. But the main reason that it’s just a work with light, you know. No light, no life, no light – no photography. I love to work digitally, because it’s something that doesn’t exist. It’s like a soul of image. I can say that for me photography is an exploration of tangible things, which I take from their place in nature and make into images with their own associations, just as functional speech lies adjacent to lyrical music in the palette of sound. This process is a manifestation of all the factors of practical experience that affect our perception : climate, race, temperament, education, and many others. This process is aided by structure and composition, as well as by formal elements rooted in our biological experience. – NIKITA PIROGOV for Dazed & Digital

NIKITA PIROGOV was born in St. Petersburg in 1989. Since early childhood he has been involved in various aspects of art such as music, painting, dancing, theatre. While a student at the St. PetersburgTheatre Arts Academy in 2008-2010 he took up photography and literature and became interested in the Japanese dance theatre Butoh.

And good news: his work will be exhibited at Galleri Image in Aarhus (Denmark) from 26 August to 2 October 2011 and in 2012 at Quai N°1 in Vevey (Switzerland).