Dmitry Markov (photographer)

Dmitry Markov was born on 23 April 1982, in Pushkino. He moved to Pskov as a child. He went to engineering college. During this period, Markov acquired his first camera. According to himself, he studied photography with Alexander Lapin.{{Cite web |title=Нефотогеничные вопросы: Социальный инстаблогер Дмитрий Марков в Иркутске |url=https://www.the-village.ru/city/interview/289114-insta-s-bomzhami |access-date=16 February 2024 |website=The Village |language=ru}}

In 2005, Markov was invited to photograph at an orphanage, and as a result of this trip, he became interested in volunteering. This passion led to a move from the Moscow region to Porkhov.{{cite web |last1=Михайлюк |first1=Виталий |title=Как волонтер, снимающий социалку в инстаграм, попал в рекламу Apple |url=https://daily.afisha.ru/culture/4376-kak-volonter-snimayuschiy-socialku-v-instagram-popal-v-reklamu-apple/ |website=Афиша |access-date=14 April 2024 |language=ru}} At the time, Markov was a drug addict. Since 2007, having overcome his addiction, Dmitry started working in the Pskov public organization "Rostok" with orphans from correctional orphanages and worked there until 2012, as well as a tutor in the children's village "Fedkovo".{{Cite web |title=Russian Photographer Dmitry Markov Dies at 42 [sic] |url=https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2024/02/16/russian-photographer-dmitry-markov-dies-at-42-a84121 |website=The Moscow Times|date=16 February 2024 }} With employees of charitable foundations, he toured dozens of social institutions, ranging from orphanages to colonies. At the same time, he photographed the life of teenagers and described it on his blog.{{cite web |title=Дмитрий Марков, Author at Такие дела |url=https://takiedela.ru/author/dcim/ |website=Такие дела |access-date=14 April 2024 |language=ru-RU}}

Until 2007, he worked as a photographer and journalist for the newspaper Argumenty i Fakty. Markov also worked as a photojournalist for Takie Dela and Meduza.{{Cite news |title=Streetkid visions: Russia's Instagram star |url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2019/may/01/dmitry-markov-russia-instagram-star-photography-iphone-photographs| website=The Guardian|date=May 2019 }}

In 2013, he participated in David Alan Harvey's Burn Diary project, adopting the concept for his Instagram - to shoot only on his cell phone and post only what he photographed today.{{cite web |title="Мне иногда говорят, что я очерняю действительность": Дмитрий Марков о своем Instagram-аккаунте |url=http://www.furfur.me/furfur/heros/heroes-furfur/214877-intervyu-s-fotografom |website=FURFUR |access-date=14 April 2024 |date=25 September 2013}}

In 2015, Markov received a grant from Getty Images and Instagram for his documentary photography. In 2016, he became the first Russian participant and one of 15 photographers from 15 countries who participated in the iPhone 7 advertising campaign "Apple's Taken on the iPhone".{{cite web |title=Dmitry Markov – VisionQuest 4rosso |url=https://www.visionquest.it/index.php/2019/07/07/dmitry-markov/?lang=en |website=www.visionquest.it |access-date=15 April 2024}}

In 2017, Markov's first book, #Chernovik, was published by Treemedia.{{cite web |title=Издана книга известного псковского фотографа Дмитрия Маркова |url=https://informpskov.ru/news/259012.html |website=ПАИ Новости Псковской области |access-date=14 April 2024 |language=ru}} On the occasion of the book's release in February 2018, Moscow's Fotodoc Center for Documentary Photography hosted Markov's solo exhibition "Russia. #Chernovik."{{cite web |title=Россия.#Черновик. 9 снимков Дмитрия Маркова — одного из лучших современных фотографов — с завтрашней выставки |url=https://novayagazeta.ru/articles/2018/02/05/75381-rossiya-chernovik |website=Новая газета |access-date=14 April 2024 |language=ru |date=13 July 2018}}

In 2018, a solo exhibition of Markov's work was held under the patronage of French fashion designer agnès b. as part of the international photography exhibition Paris Photo 2018, held in Paris from November 8–11.{{cite web |title=Персональная выставка псковского фотографа Дмитрия Маркова состоялась в рамках Paris Photo 2018 |url=https://informpskov.ru/news/285875.html |website=ПАИ Новости Псковской области |access-date=14 April 2024 |language=ru}}

In 2018, he also took part in the exhibition "HOPE" in France, organized by the Manuel Rivera-Ortiz Foundation.

In 2019, Markov's works were again presented by agnès b. at the Paris Photo 2019 exhibition as part of a joint exhibition with Claudine Doury and Ched Mur.{{cite web |title=Paris Photo 2019 |url=https://la-fab.com/en/la_galerie/paris-photo-2019/ |website=La Fab. |access-date=15 April 2024}}{{cite web |title=Paris Photo 2019 : Dmitry Markov / galerie du jour agnès b. |url=https://loeildelaphotographie.com/en/paris-photo-2019-dmitry-markov-galerie-du-jour-agnes-b-bb/ |website=The Eye of Photography Magazine |date=5 November 2019 |access-date=15 April 2024}}

In 2019, a solo exhibition of Markov's "#Draft #Russia" took place at the VisionQuesT art gallery in Genoa.{{cite web |title=В итальянской Генуе открывается выставка псковского фотографа Дмитрия Маркова |url=https://informpskov.ru/news/307900.html |website=ПАИ Новости Псковской области |access-date=15 April 2024 |language=ru}} In the same year, the second book by Markov "CUT OFF" was released by the French publisher IIKKI Books.{{cite web |title=12 марта во Франции выйдет новая книга псковского фотографа Дмитрия Маркова |url=https://informpskov.ru/news/293622.html |website=ПАИ Новости Псковской области |access-date=15 April 2024 |language=ru}} From April 6 to June 4, 2019, Markov's solo exhibition took place at the agnès b. gallery boutique in New York.{{cite web |last1=Pierini |first1=David |title=Do not call Dmitry Markov's iPhone photos 'seamy' |url=https://www.cultofmac.com/618916/dmitry-markov-iphone-photography/ |website=Cult of Mac |access-date=15 April 2024 |date=11 April 2019}}{{cite web |title=Выставка фотографий Дмитрия Маркова откроется 6 апреля в Нью-Йорке |url=https://informpskov.ru/news/297186.html |website=ПАИ Новости Псковской области |access-date=15 April 2024 |language=ru}} In October 2019, Markov starred in Kirill Serebrennikov's film Petrov's Flu.{{cite web |title=Псковский фотограф Дмитрий Марков участвует в новом YouTube-шоу |url=https://pravdapskov.ru/news/0017957.html |website=Псковская правда |access-date=17 April 2024}}{{cite web |title=Псковский фотограф снимется в новом фильме Кирилла Серебренникова "Петровы в гриппе" |url=https://informpskov.ru/news/309365.html |website=ПАИ Новости Псковской области |access-date=17 April 2024 |language=ru}}

From late 2020 to April 2021, he was co-host of the new project "Anti-Travel" on the YouTube channel {{ill|Редакция (YouTube-канал)|ru|Редакция (YouTube-канал) |lt=Редакция}}. The project is dedicated to traveling to different places in Russia, "where ordinary people do not go for their money".{{cite web |title=Псковский фотограф стал участником нового проекта журналиста Алексея Пивоварова |url=https://www.mk-pskov.ru/social/2020/12/08/pskovskiy-fotograf-stal-uchastnikom-novogo-proekta-zhurnalista-alekseya-pivovarova.html |website=МК в Пскове |access-date=16 April 2024}}

April 23, 2021 in the Gogol Center opened a solo exhibition of the photographer "Russia squared". The exhibition was accompanied by the presentation of the latest edition of his photo book "#Chernovik".{{cite web |title=В "Гоголь-центре" открылась выставка фотографа Дмитрия Маркова "Россия в квадрате" |url=https://www.pravilamag.ru/news/culture-and-entertainment/30-04-2021/259023-v-gogol-centre-otkrylas-vystavka-fotografa-dmitriya-markova-rossiya-v-kvadrate/ |website=www.pravilamag.ru |access-date=16 April 2024 |language=ru-RU}}{{cite web |title=В "Гоголь-Центре" откроется выставка Дмитрия Маркова {{!}} Арт {{!}} Time Out |url=https://www.timeout.ru/msk/feature/v-gogol-czentre-otkroetsya-vystavka-dmitriya-markova |website=TimeOut |access-date=16 April 2024 |language=ru-RU}}

Markov's work chronicled everyday life in various regions of Russia. Meduza compared his photographs to unofficial Soviet photographs, which showed life without regard for ideological objectives. The composition of his photographs often resembled a theatrical mise-en-scène. He often focused on the contrast between the official and the private, the artificial and the natural, the planned and the accidental. Markov preferred using a smartphone to take pictures and mainly posted them to Instagram. He published three books of his photography. His work was shown around the world, with exhibitions in Moscow, Paris and New York City.{{Cite web |title=Photographer Dmitry Markov has died: Markov's work sought to show a Russian identity and patriotism separate from that of the authorities |url=https://meduza.io/en/feature/2024/02/20/photographer-dmitry-markov-has-died |website=Meduza}}

Markov began participating in street protests in 2012. On 2 February 2021, he was detained near the Moscow City Court, where he came to support Alexei Navalny. The photographer was taken to the Kosino-Ukhtomsky police station, where he took a picture of a security officer wearing a bulletproof vest and a balaclava, sitting under a portrait of Russian President Vladimir Putin. This photo went viral on social media and became a source of memes.{{Cite web |date=2 February 2021 |title=Russian social media, meme reacts to Navalny sentencing |url=https://jam-news.net/navalny-sentenced-to-3-5-years-in-prison-russian-social-media-reacts/ |access-date=16 February 2024 |website=English Jamnews |language=en-US}} A few days later, the only signed author's print of the photograph was sold at a charity auction on Facebook for 2 million rubles. Markov promised to divide the amount between OVD-Info and the Apology of Protest, two organizations engaged in helping detainees at political rallies.{{Cite web |title=Фотограф Дмитрий Марков выставил на благотворительный аукцион снимок, ставший символом преследования Навального и его сторонников |url=https://meduza.io/news/2021/02/06/fotograf-dmitriy-markov-vystavil-na-blagotvoritelnyy-auktsion-snimok-stavshiy-simvolom-presledovaniya-navalnogo-i-ego-storonnikov |access-date=16 February 2024 |website=Meduza |language=ru}}

Markov died in Pskov of an overdose due to methadone toxicity. He was 41.{{Cite web |title=Умер фотограф Дмитрий Марков |url=https://meduza.io/news/2024/02/16/umer-fotograf-dmitriy-markov |access-date=16 February 2024 |website=Meduza |language=ru}} The body was found on February 16. The date of death is reported in the media as February 16.{{cite web |title=Как Дима Марков помогал наркозависимым и каким будет реабилитационный центр его имени |url=https://daily.afisha.ru/relationship/26963-kak-dima-markov-pomogal-narkozavisimym-i-kakim-budet-reabilitacionnyy-centr-ego-imeni/ |website=daily.afisha.ru |publisher=daily.afisha.ru |access-date=14 February 2025 |language=Russian}} The date of February 15 is written on his grave. He is buried at the {{ill|Ново-Деревенское кладбище (Пушкино)|ru|Ново-Деревенское кладбище (Пушкино) |lt=Novo-Derevenskoye cemetery}} in Pushkino near Moscow.{{cite web |title=Псковская губерния |url=https://t.me/guberniaband/8305 |website=Telegram |access-date=16 April 2024}}

Critics often accused Markov of denigrating Russian reality and showing unsightly pictures of provincial life. However, Markov explained that he focuses on the unpleasant details because he knows and feels the needs of not-so-wealthy people very well. Among the heroes of his photos are disabled people, orphans, prisoners, military men and just inhabitants of the Russian countryside. Europeans call Markov's photographs illustrations of Russian classics.

Some critics have compared the style of Markov's photographs to Renaissance paintings and Alexander Deineka's paintings.{{cite web |title=Неслучившееся будущее |url=https://thenewtab.io/nesluchivsheesya-budushhee/ |website=Новая вкладка |access-date=17 April 2024 |language=ru-RU |date=21 February 2024}}

• {{ill|Серебряная камера|ru|Серебряная камера |lt=Silver Camera}} Grand Prix{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Фотограф из Пскова стал первым россиянином в рекламной кампании Apple. Чем он известен? |url=https://tvrain.tv/galleries/pervyj_rossijskij_fotograf_kampanii_apple-426900/#photo-7741 |website=tvrain.tv |access-date=17 April 2024 |date=3 February 2017}}
• In 2015, Markov received a Getty Images Instagram Grant through a program to encourage photographers who use Instagram to tell the stories of little-known communities{{cite magazine |title=These Are the Winners of the First Instagram Grants |url=https://time.com/4025312/instagram-getty-images/ |magazine=TIME |access-date=17 April 2024 |language=en |date=10 September 2015}}{{cite web |title=Фотограф из Пскова получил Instagram-грант от одного из крупнейших фотоагентств мира |url=https://informpskov.ru/news/187350.html |website=ПАИ Новости Псковской области |access-date=17 April 2024 |language=ru}}
• Winner of the Anna Politkovskaya Kamerton Prize (2021){{cite web |title=Наталья Синдеева и Дмитрий Марков получили премию "Камертон" имени Анны Политковской |url=https://novayagazeta.ru/articles/2021/08/30/natalia-sindeeva-i-dmitrii-markov-poluchili-premiiu-kamerton-imeni-anny-politkovskoi-news |website=Новая газета |access-date=17 April 2024 |language=ru |date=29 December 1980}}

In 2024, a rehabilitation center for drug-dependent teenagers named after Dmitry Markov was established in Nizhny Novgorod.{{cite web |last1=Ковалева |first1=Елена |title=Реабилитационный центр для наркозависимых подростков создадут в Нижнем Новгороде |url=https://www.kommersant.ru/doc/6524677 |website=Коммерсантъ |access-date=17 April 2024 |language=ru |date=20 February 2024}}

Artist Dmitry Vrubel has created a virtual museum, one of whose departments bears Markov's name.

• {{cite book |last1=Markov |first1=Dmitry |title=ЧЕРНОВИК – Издательство Treemedia |date=2018 |publisher=Treemedia |isbn=978-952-68506-6-5 |pages=204 |url=http://treemedia.ru/chernovik/ |access-date=17 April 2024 |language=ru-RU}}
• {{cite book |last1=Markov |first1=Dmitry |title=Cut off |date=2019 |publisher=Iikki |location=Plouer-sur-Rance |isbn=978-2955795378 |pages=96 |url=https://ascenseurvegetal.com/en/photobook/1700-cut-off.html |access-date=17 April 2024 |language=en-us}}
• {{cite book |last1=Markov |first1=Dmitry |title=Russia² |date=1 January 2021 |publisher=TREEMEDIA CONT |isbn=978-952-69467-6-4 |url=https://www.amazon.com/Russia-squared-autograph-imprint-otpechatok/dp/B09XJY3RBR |access-date=17 April 2024 |language=Russian}}

• Fragments (2020){{cite web |title=Псковский фотограф Дмитрий Марков стал героем фильма "Фрагменты" |url=https://businesspskov.ru/news/166603.html |website=Центр деловой информации Псковской области |access-date=17 April 2024}}
• Petrov's Flu (2021)
• Survivors (2024){{cite web |last1=Морозова |first1=Ксения |title=Как Дима Марков помогал наркозависимым и каким будет реабилитационный центр его имени |url=https://daily.afisha.ru/relationship/26963-kak-dima-markov-pomogal-narkozavisimym-i-kakim-budet-reabilitacionnyy-centr-ego-imeni/ |website=Афиша |access-date=17 April 2024 |language=ru}}{{cite web |title=Проект "ВЫЖИВШИЕ" - YouTube |url=https://www.youtube.com/@NarkoClinic |website=www.youtube.com |access-date=17 April 2024}}

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