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Oleg Kolimbet is a visual artist with a focus on photographic work and the photobook. Born in Bering Island (Kamchatka), Oleg currently lives in St.Petersburg, Russia. He studied German and English philology at St. Petersburg University and business administration at University of Walles. In 2000- 2022 he studied documentary and post-documentary photography at Docdocdoc school of modern photography in St.Petersburg.

His work explores personal and collective memory, as well address themes of changes in cultural landscape and the impact of these changes on people.

Books:

2023 “All is not what it seems” / Collective zine, self-published 

2022 “So far,so close” / Prototype, self-published 

2022 “Sami po sebe” / Zine, self-published 

2021 “Tales of the Unwritten” / Collective Project by dot-Art

AWARDS:

2021 CPOY 76 / Team Picture Story: Bryansk region. Silver  

2021 Open contest of “Union of Photographic Artists of Russia”/ Nature. Finalist 

2021 Russian Photo Week / Nature and Landscapes. 2d place 

2020 Urban Photo Awards   / Streets. Selected photographers  

2020 Black&White Magazine / Smartphone contest. Winner  

 

Group EXHIBITIONS:

2021  “Photo Union. Solidarity”festival/ Suzdal Kremlin, Russia

2021  Tales of the Unwritten /Stelio Crise State Library, Trieste, Italy

2021  Russian Photo Week / Gostiny Dvor, Moscow, Russia 

2020 Trieste Photo Days / Museo del Territorio, Cormòns, Italy

2020  City VS Quarantine / Art Palace, Lviv, Ukraine

EDUCATION IN PHOTOGRAPHY:

2020 – 2022: School of Modern Photography Docdocdoc, Saint-Petersburg

2022: Artist’s book workshop by Elena Kholkina and Feodora Kaplan, Saint-Petersburg

2022: Handmade bookbinding workshop by Irina Tarhanova, Saint-Petersburg

INTERVIEWS:

2020 The Pictorial Mag 

PRINTS:

Аrchival pigment prints are available in Limited editions.
For purchasing information please visit
Prints page.
  

 

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