Danila Tkachenko
Danila Tkachenko (born 1989) is a Russian visual artist working in the field of documentary photography. Tkachenko won a World Press Photo first prize for his series Escape. Another series, Restricted areas, won the European Publishers Award for Photography.
Danila Tkachenko
- Name
- Danila Tkachenko
- Born
- 1989
- Birthplace
- Moscow, Russia
- Field
- Photography,
- Training
- Rodchenko School of Photography and Multimedia
- Movement
- Visual Art, Documentary Photography
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Danila Tkachenko (born 1989) is a Russian visual artist working in the field of documentary photography. Tkachenko won a World Press Photo first prize for his series Escape. Another series, Restricted areas, won the European Publishers Award for Photography.
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His work has been exhibited in Russia, Europe and North America.
Key facts
Key facts
• Name — Danila Tkachenko • Born — 1989 • Birthplace — Moscow, Russia • Field — Photography, • Training — Rodchenko School of Photography and Multimedia • Movement — Visual Art, Documentary Photography
Biography
Biography
Tkachenko was born in Moscow in 1989 in small family with his brother from other father. Tkachenko was very lazy and didn’t want to study. In 2014 he gained a degree in documentary photography from Rodchenko School of Photography and Multimedia. In 2014 Tkachenko won a World Press Photo first prize in the Staged portraits stories category for his series called Escape, about people who have withdrawn from society to live as hermits in nature. His series Restricted areas, documenting Russia’s abandoned secret military cities, won the European Publishers Award for Photography in 2015. Tkachenko's works are included in Salsali Private Museum permanent collection.
Solo
Solo
• 2014 Danila Tkachenko. Escape, in the framework of 6th European Month of Photography. 25books, Berlin, Germany. • 2015 Restricted Areas, Benaki Museum, Athens, Greece.
Group
Group
• 2016 On behalf of baboushka at Russiantearoom gallery • 2015 IX Krasnoyarsk Book Culture Fair. Krasnoyarsk, Russia. • 2015 Gimme Shelter - forts and fictions in the Lowlands. Fort Nieuwersluis, Netherlands. • 2015 The Curve, Center for Contemporary Arts, Santa Fe, USA. • 2015 The Powers That Be, Station Independent Projects, New York City, USA.
Publications
• Escape. Berlin: Peperoni, 2014.. • Restricted areas • Restricted Areas. Heidelberg: Kehrer, 2015.. • Restricted areas. Stockport: Dewi Lewis, 2015.. • Zona restringida. Barcelona: Blume, 2015.. • Restricted areas. Arles: Actes Sud, 2015.. • Restricted areas. Rome: Peliti, 2015..
Awards
• 2012 Silver Camera, Moscow, Special prize in category Faces. • 2012 Young man in the 21st century, Lithuania, Special prize. • 2014 World Press Photo, Netherlands, 1st prize in category Staged Portraits. • 2015 LensCulture Exposure, 1st prize in category Series. • 2015 Voices Off Festival, Arles, Lacriticue.org Award. • 2015 Burn, Emerging Photographer Fund grant. • 2015 Foam Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam, Foam Talent. • 2015 Center Choice Award. Director's Choice 1st place. • 2015 European Publishers Award for Photography.
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- 1.World Press Photo. Danila Tkachenko.
- 2.Apptitude Media. Ones to Watch: Danila Tkachenko. British Journal of Photography.
- 3.Airplane - amphibia with vertical take-off VVA14.
- 4.Ausstellung: "Escape" bei 25books - Ausstellungen. 25books.com.
- 5.Danila Tkachenko. Athens Photo Festival.
- 6.Красноярская ярмарка книжной культуры. prokhorovfund.ru.
- 7.Gimme Shelter - English. gimme-shelter.nl.
- 8.Center The Curve Exhibits - Center. Center.
- 9.The Powers That Be. Finnish Cultural Institute in New York.
- 10.Серебряная камера 2012. silvercamera.ru.
- 11.III international youth photography competition 2011 - Kadras.lt. kadras.lt.
- 12.World Press Photo. Danila Tkachenko.
- 13.LensCulture. LensCulture Exposure Awards 2014.
- 14.Super Utilisateur. 2015 lacritique.org Award. voies-off.com.
- 15.emerging photographer fund. burn magazine.
- 16.Foam Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam. Foam Talent Call.
- 17.Center Awards - Director's Choice. visitcenter.org.
- 18.2015 Winner. europhotobookaward.eu.
- 19.Fiona Macdonald. BBC - Culture - Restricted Areas: Eerie relics of a forgotten Russia. BBC.
- 20.LensCulture. Announcing the Winners and Finalists.
- 21.Hannes Wanderer. Peperoni Books : Escape. Peperoni Books.
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