Igor Mukhin – Mein Moskau
Russian Photography 1985-1990. Between awakening and inner immigration.
About Igor Muskhin, Mein Moskau (2013)
Sometimes it takes a second glance. When I looked at the photo book „My Moscow“ by Igor Mukhin, published last year by the Swiss Benteli Verlag, I recognized some of his images. I had already seen them in the exhibition of contemporary Russian photography at the Houston Fotofest Biennial in 2012. There the artist was presented alongside Boris Mikhailov, Valera and Natasha Cherakshin and others as an important representative of a group of photographers of the “ Transition Period“. We are talking about the period when Soviet Russian society was beginning to open up after the liberalization of state censorship. It was also the same time when unregulated capitalist growth was shaping up, and a mass culture was emerging.