Shamil Khairov

The Music of Childhood and Simple Things

Children have a great gift to be fascinated by everyday discoveries, to percieve the world differently, to be sincere and spontaneous, but this also depends on the environment in which they grow up. My photos, taken mostly in the Russian countryside, are documents of this valuable gift.

Photographer

Shamil Khairov

I teach Russian visual culture at Glasgow University and abroad. The main themes of my photography are Russian countryside and provincial life. I consider myself to be an amateur photographer. An amateur is not ashamed to experience trepidation before his object or model, nor before the resultant photo. In an amateur, one can find a concentration of all the psychological and social factors of the phenomenon of photography. In this sense, he/she is akin to a poet. A poet has words at his/her disposal, a photographer has vision. The main thing is that through photography, just like through poems, exists the search for yourself, and the attempt to share with others your discoveries, your heartfelt feelings.
I am member of the Union of Photographic Artists of the Russian Federation.
Solo exhibitions: Quiet Russia, Edinburgh, Scotland (2009); Quiet Life, Ostrava, Czech Republic (2012); Simple Things, Germersheim, Germany (2013); Beyond the Seven Rivers, Warsaw, Poland (2014); Letters from Russia, Leuven, Belgium (2016), Returns, Petrozavodsk, Russia (2019, with Alexey Savkin).
Photographs: https://shamil-khairov.photographer.ru/ ; www.khairov-photo.co.uk

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