INTERPRETATION / Oleg NIKISHIN / Russia
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OLEG NIKISHIN – born in 1965 in Kazan. He is a photographer and a stringer. A founder of the Epsilon agency. Since 1999 he worked as a free-lancer mainly in Georgia with TIME and LIFE magazines. During those years he worked in Azerbaijan, Georgia, Nagorny Karabakh, Transnistria, Abkhazia, Ossetia, Yugoslavia, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Chechnya. After the war in Yugoslavia he leaves for New-York. In the winter 1999 he was suggested to return to Moscow to work as an employee in the newly organized agency Getty Images. Working at Getty he got an international recognition for his coverage of the Afghanistan war in 2001 and every-day life in Iraque in 2002-2003. A laureate of many awards: including American «Picture of the Year» NPPA/National Press Photographers Association.
Concept: Documentary photo as a construct of many interpretations. |
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