Igor Tereshkov (b.1989 Energodar, Ukraine) Multidisciplinary artist, visual researcher and documentary photographer based in Montenegro.
Working in mixed medium including installation, performance, documentary and post-documentary photography, experimenting with different photo process and alternative developing.
Studied documentary photography and photojournalism in 2017 at School of Modern Photography Docdocdoc in Saint-Petersburg (Russia) in 2019 graduated from course Experiences of Contemporary Photography ibid.
Tereshkov received several prizes and grants, been shortlisted and nominated for a number of awards, exhibited and published worldwide. Among others for his work “Oil and Moss” in 2019 he received the Project Launch Grant from CENTER Awards (USA), been nominated to Prix HSBC pour la Photographie (France) in 2020 and become one of FOAM TALENT (Netherlands) in 2021. In 2022 Oil and Moss series was exhibited in the Documentary Photographic Center — ImageSingulières (Sete, France). His current work “Red Heat” was exhibited in Schwab Museum (Biel/Bienne, Switzerland) in case of Bieler Fototage photo festival in 2022. Last group exhibition (2023) Burning Down the House, AFF Galerie, Berlin, Germany.
Been published in Washington Post, FOAM, Internazionale, Lenscratch, PhMuseum, The Calvert Journal, ARTDOC, Blind, WTLF, TakieDela, Decoder.
contacts:
info@igortereshkov.com
Festivals/Biennales:
Bieler Fototage (Biel/Bienne Festival of photography) — Biel/Bienne, Switzerland, 2022;
ImageSingulières, Documentary Photographic Center — Sète, France, 2022;
Krasnen’kaya (Red) Biennale — Saint-Petersburg, Russia, 2021;
2nd Biennale world without labor, unconditional basic income — Saint-Petersburg, Russia, 2020;
Backlight Photo festival, Visual Catalyst — Tampere, Finland, 2020;
Noorderlicht Photo festival, TAXED TO THE MAX — Groningen, Netherlands, 2019;
Vintage Photo Festival analog photography — Bydgoszcz, Poland, 2019;
PhotoVisa InBetween — Krasnodar, Russia 2019;
Batumi PhotoDays “Mirror Land” festival — Batumi, Georgia, 2019;
Suwon international photo festival — Suwon City, Korea, 2019;
Santa Fe Photo Festival — Santa Fe, USA, 2019;
Exhibitions:
Burning Down the House, AFF Galerie, Berlin, Germany — 2023 (group exhibition)
Uncharted Shores. Photography of the Post-Soviet Interim, National Gallery of Armenia, Yerevan, Armenia — 2023 (group exhibition)
Red Heat, NMB Schwab Museum, Biel/Bienne, Switzerland — 2022;
Oil and Moss, The Documentary Photographic Center — ImageSingulières, Sète, France — 2022;
Praktika-Mesta, ЦК19, Novisibirsk, Russia — 2021; (group exhibition)
Foam Talent 2021 Digital exhibition, Foam museum, Amsterdam, Nederlands — 2021; (group exhibition)
Red Heat digital exhibition, Espyphotoaward, Elysium gallery, Swansea, Wales, England — 2021;
Mental Arshin, Russian Binary Code 2020, Bogorodskoye gallery, Moscow, Russia — 2020; (group exhibition)
Visual Catalysts, Backlight Photo festival, Kulttuuritalo Laikku, Tampere, Finland — 2020; (group exhibition)
Pictura Gallery, FAR (Center For Contemporary Arts), Bloomington, Indiana USA — 2019/2020;
FotoDoc, Sakhorovskiy centr, Moscow, Russia — 2019; (group exhibition)
Noorderlicht (Noorderlicht Photo festival), Groningen, Nederlands — 2019; (group exhibition)
Splashlight Studios (Third Annual Lucie Photo Book Prize Exhibition), New York, USA — 2019;
House of Lucie (Third Annual Lucie Photo Book Prize Exhibition), Los Angeles, USA — 2019;
Kulturgeschichtliches Museum (Felix-Schoeller-Photoaward), Osnabrück, Germany — 2019;
Elysium gallery, Swansea, Wales, England — 2019;
“VDNKh. Architecture. Events. People “ at GUM: 78 years through the lens, Moscow, Russia —2017;
“VDNKh. Reconstruction”, “VZLET” project, VDNKh, Moscow, Russia —2017;
Awards, nominees and so on:
FOAM TALENT, winner (Amsterdam, Netherlands) — 2021;
Playboy x Sevens grant, The Art of Gender and Sexuality, NFT minting — 2021;
Kolga Award, shortlisted (Tbilisi, Georgia) — 2020;
Prix HSBC pour la Photographie, nominee (Paris, France) — 2020;
Direct look, winner, II place (Moscow, Russia, Sakhorovskiy center, FotoDoc) — 2019;
Felix-Schoeller-Photoaward, Free Choice / Conceptual Photograph, nominees (Osnabrück, Germany) — 2019;
International Photography Awards, analog/film, other, honorable mention — 2019;
International Photography Awards, editorial/press, environmental, honorable mention — 2019;
Lucie Photo Book Prize, finalist — 2019;
Neutral Density photography awards (ND awards), honorable mention — 2019;
Vintage Grand Prix 2019 (Poland) — 2019;
Lucie Foundation open genre scholarship, shortlisted — 2019;
Young photographers of Russia, winner (Kaluga, Russia) — 2019;
Espy photo award, winner (Swansea, South Wales, U. K.) — 2019;
Prix de la Photographie PX3, State of the World, Environmental issues category Winner (Paris, France) — 2019;
CENTER Project Launch Grant, winner (Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA) — 2019;
PhD Festival, special prize for photo series (TSU Higher School of Journalism, Tomsk, Russia) — 2018;
Non happenstance bystander, Human Rights House, winner (Voroneg, Russia) — 2018;
Photography Grant, Daily-Life category, nominee — 2018;
“VZLET”, winner (Moscow Russia) — 2017.
Interviews/artist talks:
Elsewhere a Journal of Place, Oil and Moss project — 2021
Elysium gallery TV, Red Heat project — 2021
The Calvert Journal, Red Heat project — 2021
ARTDOC Photography Magazine, Oil and Moss project — 2020
Phmuseum.com, Oil and Moss project — 2019
Lectures, Master Classes and Teachers practise:
Альтернативные процессы в документальной и постдокументальной фотографии, ВДНХ “Рабочий и колхозница”, Москва — 2019;
Практический мастер-класс по альтернативным фотографическим процессам, Школа современной фотографии ДокДокДок, курс Документальной фотографии и фотожурналистики — 2019;