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Pavel Apletin (born 1967) is a contemporary artist from St.Petersburg (Russia), specialised in nude, portrait, still life and art photography, author of several books of photography. Prefers analog photography. All photos on the site are made on film.

Member of The Russian Union of Art Photographers.

 

Books

2024 - The old apartment

2023 - Great everyday life. Northern peasant utensils in photographs

2023 - Mammography. Variations on the theme

2022 - Women. Identification, self publishing

2020 - Old things of Totma, self publishing

2020 - Italy in motion and in calm, self publishing

2019 - The Corporality #2/50, Argento, Nizhny Novgorod

2019 - Duality. Cyanotype book, limited edition, the Artist’s book

2018 - Fragments. Cyanotype book, limited edition, the Artist’s book

2018 - 17 profiles, publishing by Pavel Apletin

2017 - The Corporality, Cyanotype book, limited edition, the Artist’s book

2011 - Istanbul. Chain of moments, publishing by Pavel Apletin

 

Solo exhibitions

2024 - Great everyday life. Northern peasant utensils in photographs, Gallery 2/17, St.Petersburg

2024 - Great everyday life. Northern peasant utensils in photographs, Arkhangelsk Regional Lore Museum

2021 - Сorporeità, Museo Diocesano, Caltagirone, Italy.

2021 - Old things of Totma, Zerno photogallerySt.Petersburg

2020 - Argento gallery, Nizhny Novgorod

2016 - library of the Kirov islands, St.Petersburg

2014 - library of the Kirov islands, St.Petersburg

2009 - Gallery Rachmaninov garden, St.Petersburg

2003 - Art Gallery, Anadyr

 

Exhibitions

2022 - Krasnodar, Attraction, Regional State Exhibition Hall

2021 - Moscow, Fototop, Classic photography Gallery.

2020 - Saint-Petersburg. Zerno photogallery, St.Petersburg

2020 - Photoexhibition-2020, Zerno photogallery, St.Petersburg

2019 - Temples of the Russian North, The St.Petersburg State Capella, St.Petersburg

2019 - V biennale of contemporary photography, The State Russian Museum, St.Petersburg

2018 - Summer 2018:YourDailyPhotograph.com, Duncan Miller Gallery, Santa Monica, California

2018 - Temples of Russia, The St.Petersburg State Capella, St.Petersburg

2018 - Panopticon, Zerno photogallery, St.Petersburg

2018 - Still life in photography, The State Russian Museum, St.Petersburg

2017 - IV biennale of contemporary photography, The State Russian Museum, St.Petersburg

2016 - Photounion-2016, Exhibition dedicated to the 320th anniversary of the Russian fleet, The house of scientists of the RAS, St.Petersburg

2015 - III biennale of contemporary photography, The State Russian Museum, St.Petersburg

 

Festivals

2019 - MedPhotoFest, Catania, Italy

2019 – The Author’s collection in the framework of the Second Festival of Russian Art Photography, The Museum Exhibition Center, Serpukhov, Russia

 

Collections

The State Russian Museum, St.Petersburg, Russia

Museum of the Russian Photography, Kolomna, Russia

L’Associazione Culturale denominata “Mediterraneum”, Catania, Italy

Private collections: Russia, USA, Japan, UK, Switzerland, Germany, Belgium, Monaco, Italy, France, Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, Finland, France, Lithuania, Ukraine, Hungary, Ireland, Canada, Denmark, Czech

 

Main publications

На рубеже веков (At the turn of the century), Saint-Petersburg, 2017

FINE ART PHOTO, #32, May 2022, portfolio, 14 pages.

 

Other achievements

2020, 2021, 2022 - State scholarships for outstanding figures of culture and art of Russia.

2023 - Grant from the President of the Russian Federation to support creative projects of national importance in the field of culture and art.