Alexey Titarenko

Born in Leningrad, Russia, in 1962, Titarenko has lived and worked in New York since 2008. In an autobiographical essay, he unfolds the formation of his artistic vision and his creation of a unique style. Famous for introducing long exposure and intentional camera movement into street photography, Titarenko created powerful metaphors to document the century’s historic changes. His haunting, ghostlike images have become icons of the era of the collapse of the Soviet state.