2021 — Mezen, Russia
About this series
Photographer: Emil Gataullin
Nationality: Russian
Based in: Moscow, Russia
Website: emilgataullin.photoshelter.com
Instagram: @emilgataullin
Emil Gataullin, born in 1972, based in Moscow, Russia. In 1999 he graduated from Moscow Surikov Institute of Art, majoring in monumental painting. He studied photography with one of the leading Russian photography ideologists and authors, Alexander Lapin, from 2003 to 2004.
His work was published in GEO, LFI Magazine, The New York Times, Black+White Photography, FOTO Magazine, Schwarzweiss, Russian Reporter, Ogonek, Takie Dela among many other magazines and online media. His projects were shown in solo exhibitions in Germany, France, Austria, Italy, Lithuania, Hungary, Slovakia and Russia. He won many awards including London Street Photography Festival 2020, Monovisions Photography Awards 2017, PhotoVisa 2015, The Alfred Fried Photography Award 2014.
In 2016 his personal retrospective book “Towards the Horizon” was published by Edition Lammerhuber.