Igor Gaidai

1961, Ukraine

1985 graduated from the Karpenko-Kary Institute of Theatre Arts at Kyiv with a Specialist Degree of Cinema Operator

Thesis DRAGON awarded at the Festival Youth, WORLD CINEMA SCHOOLS FESTIVAL, etc.

1980 1984 private photo exhibitions in Kyiv (arts library, House of Composers, Cinema Studio Kyiv Scientific Film, etc.)

1985 1987 professor at Film Directing Department, Karpenko-Kary Institute of Theatre Arts at Kyiv (photo lighting, composition)

1987 - 1991 art photographer at Dovzhenko Film Studio

1990 - present leads a private photo studio, Kyiv, Ukraine

1991 exhibition at Hinesburg, Frankfurt, Germany

1993 participation in the exhibition IMAGES DUKRAINE, Gallery "Chateau d`Eau", Toulouse, France

1994 personal exhibition at the French Culture Center in Kyiv, Ukraine

1996 Two personal exhibitions and publications in the photo magazine Photo Magazine, Leipzig, Germany


2001 participation in the exhibition BRAND UKRAINIAN, Centre of Contemporary Art under National University of "Kyiv-Mohyla Academy", Kyiv, Ukraine

2002 exhibition Ukrainians. Beginning of third century, Representative office of Kodak in Ukraine

2003 - exhibiti...