Aleksandr Agafonov

Alexander Agafonov Perm, Russia

All my life being a medical doctor, I have started to actively practice photography in 2009. I feel about camera as a synapse between inner world of mine and outer world of reality, a sort of investigational tool, which peels off common meanings, revealing or at least helping to appropriate new ones.

2012-2013 "Artpolitika" Art School, Perm-Yekaterinburg

2013 Yury Kozyrev (WPF winner) consulting

2011 “People within Frame” on-line course by Artem Chernov (“Russian Reporter” magazine)

2011 “Documentary Photography” on-line course #1 and #2 by Valery Nistratov (tutor of photography school at MultiMedia Art Museum of Moscow)

2011 “Reportage” – master-class of Sergey Maximishin (WPF winner), Moscow, Russia

2010 “Composition in Reportage Photography” on-line course by Artem Chernov (“Russian Reporter” magazine)

2010 “Contemporary Photography” introductory course by Nataliya Reznik and Denis Davydov, Perm, Russia

2013 "Art Vs Geography", Perm State Museum of Contemporary Art

2013 "Vector of Perm", Marat Guelman gallery, "Vinzavod" Centre, Moscow

2012 “Everyday Life” Photocontest, Kaunas, Lithuania

2012 "Prosmotr" exhibition at Perm Art Residency

2012 "Photograffity" International Photography Festival, participants' exhibition (Perm, Russia)

2012 Silver Camera Contest (Moscow, Russia) – contestants’ multimedia show

2012 Street Photography Festival, Moscow – shortlist’s participants exhibition

2011 Best Students Works, "Photoplay" Photography School, Moscow, Russia