© Vladimir Antoshenkov
Rosphoto - Russian National Centre of Photography 35 Bolshaya Morskaya 191186 Sankt Peterburg Russie
There’s a special place reserved for Vladimir Antoschenkov in the world of Saint-Petersburg photography, for he is a true architectural photographer.
Vladimir Antoschenkov was born in 1933 in Leningrad. In 1957 he graduated from the Faculty of Architecture at the Leningrad Institute of Civil Engineering with an academic degree in architecture. In the mid 1970’s he took a great interest in photography. From that moment on these two creative spheres have been deeply intertwined in artist’s life, complementing each other and forming his unique style.
© Vladimir Antoshenkov
Antoschenkov’s photographs are short stories about urban life where each single object is animated. Architecture that dominates here is inseparably linked with its environment — humans, animals, plants — and it bears traces of this sometimes evident, sometimes implicit interaction.
The retrospective exhibition at ROSPHOTO covers work of several decades, from 1974 to 2012.
© Vladimir Antoshenkov
Photos et vignette © Vladimir Antoshenkov