Nikolay Gnisyuk, a classic but unsung Russian photographer – The Eye of Photography

The history of Russian photography records names of authors, whose best works are nowadays well-known to every photography lover. Each of these shots reveals layers of cultural history and zeitgeist, in which the author’s personal biography intertwines with stories of his models. Nikolay (Mikola) Gnisyuk is best known as the movie photographer, who created an entire gallery of high-class portraits of movie stars. The first retrospective of the photographer, now on view at Rosphoto State Museum includes artworks created between the 1960s and the 1980s, which have never been displayed in St. Petersburg before.