Irina Chmyreva

May 12, 2025

Please welcome our new NCU author.

Irina Chmyreva was born in 1974 in Krasnodar, USSR.
Based in Moscow, Russia.

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'.

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