Danila Tkachenko (born 1989) is a

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working in the field of

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. Tkachenko won a

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first prize for his series ''Escape.'' Another series, ''Restricted areas,'' won the European Publishers Award for Photography. His work has been exhibited in Russia, Europe and North America.

Biography

Tkachenko was born in

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in 1989 in small family with his brother from other father. Tkachenko was very lazy and didn’t want to study. In 2014 he gained a degree in

from

Rodchenko School of Photography and Multimedia Aleksander Mikhailovich Rodchenko (; – 3 December 1956) was a Russian and Soviet artist, sculptor, photographer, and graphic designer. He was one of the founders of constructivism and Russian design; he was married to the artist Varvara Stepa ...

. In 2014 Tkachenko won a

first prize in the Staged portraits stories category for his series called ''Escape,'' about people who have withdrawn from society to live as

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s in nature. His series ''Restricted areas,'' documenting Russia’s abandoned secret military cities, won the European Publishers Award for Photography in 2015. Tkachenko's works are included in

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permanent collection.

Exhibitions

Solo

*2014 ''Danila Tkachenko. Escape,'' in the framework of 6th European Month of Photography. 25books,

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, Germany. *2015 ''Restricted Areas,''

Benaki Museum The Benaki Museum, established and endowed in 1930 by Antonis Benakis in memory of his father Emmanuel Benakis, is housed in the Benakis family mansion in Athens, Greece. The museum houses Greek works of art from the prehistorical to the modern ...

, Athens, Greece.

Group

*2016 ''On behalf of baboushka'' at Russiantearoom gallery *2015 IX Krasnoyarsk Book Culture Fair.

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, Russia. *2015 ''Gimme Shelter - forts and fictions in the Lowlands.'' Fort Nieuwersluis, Netherlands. *2015 ''The Curve,'' Center for Contemporary Arts, Santa Fe, USA. *2015 ''The Powers That Be,'' Station Independent Projects,

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, USA.

Awards

*2012 Silver Camera,

, Special prize in category Faces. *2012 Young man in the 21st century, Lithuania, Special prize. *2014

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, 1st prize in category Staged Portraits. *2015

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Exposure, 1st prize in category Series. *2015 Voices Off Festival,

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, Lacriticue.org Award. *2015 Burn, Emerging Photographer Fund grant. *2015

Foam Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam Foam or Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam is a photography museum located on Keizersgracht in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. The museum has four different exhibitions at any given time in which different photographic genres are shown, such as documentary p ...

, Foam Talent. *2015 Center Choice Award. Director's Choice 1st place. *2015 European Publishers Award for Photography.

Publications

*''Escape.'' Berlin: Peperoni, 2014. . *''Restricted areas'' **''Restricted Areas.'' Heidelberg: Kehrer, 2015. . **''Restricted areas.'' Stockport: Dewi Lewis, 2015. . **''Zona restringida.'' Barcelona: Blume, 2015. . **''Restricted areas.'' Arles: Actes Sud, 2015. . **''Restricted areas.'' Rome: Peliti, 2015. .

References

External links

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