Maria Dupovkina — is an independent visual artist and sociologist from Ivanovo, Russia, currently based in Moscow. Student of the Academy Fotografika. Official photographer of the Andrei Tarkovsky International Film Festival «Zerkalo».
Maria works with documentary photography, art photography and video.
She prefer working with themes of family, self-determination, humanity and social interactions, gently explores this sensitive topics using her sociological education.
Currently working on a project on the post-trauma of domestic violence.
Awards, participation and festivals:
2021 First Avant-Garde Factory III, Ivanovo, Russia
Rencontres d'Arles, Lusted Men & leboudoir2.0, Arles, France
2020 Popular participation GETXOPHOTO, Getxo, Basque Country
Julia Margaret Cameron Award, honorable mention
Finalist of the contest «Best Young Photographers of Russia»
Riga Photomonth
Independent Free Journalism Award «Редколлегия», nominee
2019 Finalist of LensCulture Visual Storytelling Awards, Imaginative Storytelling
First Avant-Garde Factory, Ivanovo, Russia
2018 Winner (2-nd place) InterPhoto, France
2013 Finalist of the contest «Best Young Photographers of Russia»
Solo exhibitions:
2020 Reflection. SHKAF gallery and art-residence, Saint Petersburg, Russia
2019 Simple Portrait, Ivanovo, Russia
Une petite connaissance. Maria Dupovkina, Paris, France
2017 Течение, Ivanovo art museum, Russia
2013 Течение, Museum of the Tsvetaev family, Russia
Selected group exhibitions:
2021 Home, First Avant-Garde Factory III, Ivanovo, Russia
Lusted Men, Festival PhotoSaintGermain, Paris, France
2020 GETXOPHOTO, Algorta, Getxo, Basque Country
Top of 2020 L.A. Photo Curator & N.Y. Photo Curator (online exhibition)
L.A. Photo Curator: Global Photography Award (online exhibition)
MFR (Young Photographers of Russia) — finalists and winners, Kaluga, Russia
Gallery Wall-online (online exhibition)
2019 Public spaces. Photographic exploration project, Lisbon, Portugal
Диафрагма 5.0, Ivanovo, Russia
2018 interPHOTO, Roscoff, France
2013 Best Young Photographers of Russia — finalists and winners, Moscow, Russia
Artist talks, events, seminars, other activitiеs
2021 First Avant-Garde Factory III, Ivanovo, Russia. Artist talk
2020 Oleg Klimov Art-residence, Yantarnoye, Kaliningrad
2019 First Avant-Garde Factory, Ivanovo, Russiа. Artist talk
2015 International Arts Festival Apple Feast, Palekh, Russia. Artist talk
Publications
2020 FotoNostrum Magazine. Maria Dupovkina, Empathetic photography
www.flipsnack.com/FotoNostrumMagazine/issue-no-10-en-fotonostrum-magazine/full-view.html
LensCulture. Black-and-White Photography Favorites
www.lensculture.com/articles/jim-casper-26-black-and-white-photography-favorites-from-lensculture
Ventanas de papel. Reflexiones en torno a la fotografía documental, monograph Rafa Badia
Заповедник. На могиле рейва
zapovednik.space/material/na-mogile-rejva
Такие дела. Я не могу найти правильное слово
takiedela.ru/2020/06/ya-ne-mogu-nayti-pravilnoe-slovo/
2019 LensCulture. Award winner Maria Dupovkina — I can’t find the right word.
www.lensculture.com/articles/maria-dupovkina-i-can-t-find-the-right-word