NCU introduces a new author of articles on photography, whose works and activities are known all over the world.

Irina Yuryevna Chmyreva, PhD in Art History. Researcher in the history of photography. Curator of exhibitions of Russian and foreign photography. Member of the International Association of Art Critics (AICA) and the Russian Association of Art Historians (AIS), the Association of Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES), the International Association of Photography Curators Oracle, International Photography Curators.

Irina’s first article on our website is dedicated to the project of NCU member, documentary photographer Tatiana Plotnikova 'Mari: The Last Pagans of Europe'.

© Irina Chmyreva / Geese-swans

Geese-swans

‘Mari’ and other stories by Tatiana Plotnikova

Huge white geese flap their wings. They seem to have flown in from a Russian folk tale, familiar to us from childhood. In the middle of a village street with small houses, in the early morning light, they look like real masters. And this is true…   read more

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Irina Chmyreva / New author 2025. Noga Creative Union

Pierrot Men

Please welcome our new NCU member. Pierrot Men was born in 1954 in Midongy-Atsimo, Madagascar. Based in Fianarantsoa,...
Irina Chmyreva / New author 2025. Noga Creative Union

Alexandra Demenkova

Please welcome our new NCU member. Alexandra Demenkova was born in Kingisepp, USSR. She is living in Tbilisi, Georgia.
Irina Chmyreva / New author 2025. Noga Creative Union

Nadezhda Khramova

Please welcome our new NCU member. Nadezhda Khramova was born in 1978 in Moscow, USSR. She is based in Moscow, Russia.
Irina Chmyreva / New author 2025. Noga Creative Union

DANNONG / China 2024

‘Replication of what we saw’ 1 August — 30 September 2024. DANNONG and Noga Creative Union present an exhibition...
Irina Chmyreva / New author 2025. Noga Creative Union

Vitebsk 2024

‘And Quiet Flows the Volga’ 26 — 30 June 2024. Noga Creative Union, within the framework of the IX International...
Irina Chmyreva / New author 2025. Noga Creative Union

Declaration 2024

NCU has joined the movement for fair author portrayal in journalism and documentary photography on the Writing With...
Irina Chmyreva / New author 2025. Noga Creative Union

Tatiana Plotnikova

Please welcome our new NCU member. Tatiana Plotnikova was born in Leningrad, USSR (now St Petersburg, Russia). She...
Irina Chmyreva / New author 2025. Noga Creative Union

Kristof Huf

Please welcome our new NCU member. Kristof Huf was born in 1971 in Guadalajara, Mexico. Based in Munich, Germany.
Irina Chmyreva / New author 2025. Noga Creative Union

Pavlos Kozalidis

Please welcome our new NCU member. Pavlos Kozalidis was born in 1961 in the port city of Piraeus in Attica. Based...
Irina Chmyreva / New author 2025. Noga Creative Union

Manuel Almenares

Please welcome our new NCU member. Manuel Almenares Estrada was born in 1992 in Havana, the capital of Cuba. Based...
Irina Chmyreva / New author 2025. Noga Creative Union

Paulo Nunes

Please welcome our new NCU member. Paulo Nunes was born in 1977 in the city of Lisbon, Portugal. Based in Lisbon,...
Irina Chmyreva / New author 2025. Noga Creative Union

Ragnar Axelsson

Please welcome our new NCU member. Ragnar Guðni Axelsson, also known as RAX was born in 1958 in Reykjavík, the...
Irina Chmyreva / New author 2025. Noga Creative Union

Raúl Cañibano

Please welcome our new NCU member. Raúl Cañibano Ercilla was born in 1961 in Havana, the capital of Cuba. Based...
Irina Chmyreva / New author 2025. Noga Creative Union

Dmitriy Cherba

Please welcome our new NCU member. Dmitriy Cherba was born in 1987, in the railway town of Uzlovaya, in the east...
Irina Chmyreva / New author 2025. Noga Creative Union

Bielsko-Biała 2021

'The Don Steppe' 8 — 24 October, 2021 The Centre for Photography Foundation, within the framework of the 9. Foto Art...
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