Fyodor Telkov (b. 1986, Nizhny Tagil) is a photographer and artist based in Yekaterinburg. In his practice, he researches the anthropological and cultural landscape of the Urals and Russia. A member of the Russian Union of Art Photographers, Telkov worked as a curator at the Metenkov’s House Photography Museum (2017-2019) and now teaches graphic design and applied photography at NTSPI. He is a recipient of multiple national and international prizes.
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From the 36 Views project, 2017. The title of this project refers to Hokusai’s famous series of landscape prints called 36 Views of Mount Fuji
From the 36 Views project, 2017. Telkov’s series is an exploration of Degtyarsk, former mining town near Yekaterinburg
From the 36 Views project, 2017. Instead of a sacred mountain of Hokusai’s prints, what we see here are two waste piles of dead rock from the mines
From the 36 Views project, 2017. The waste piles can be seen from almost anywhere in Degtyarsk
From the 36 Views project, 2017. Waste waters from the mines still poison the town’s soil and water
From the Right to Believe project, 2016. This series tells the story of the Old Believers—Eastern Orthodox Christians who rejected the 1650s church reforms and have maintained their own rituals ever since
From the Right to Believe project, 2016. The Old Believers were ruthlessly persecuted and still find themselves in a complicated relationship with the Russian Orthodox Church
From the Right to Believe project, 2016
From the Right to Believe project, 2016
From the Right to Believe project, 2016
From the Ural Mari. There Is No Death project, 2018. In collaboration with Alexander Sorin and Natalia Konradova. This series is an exploration of the Ural Mari—Finno-Ugric indigenous people who live in Russia
From the Ural Mari. There Is No Death project, 2018. The Mari still preserve their traditions despite colonisation by Russian Empire, the Soviet Union, and despite globalisation
From the Ural Mari. There Is No Death project, 2018. The Mari people are often called the last pagans of Europe
From the Ural Mari. There Is No Death project, 2018
