biography

Alexey Nikishin was born in 1976 in Moscow. Having finished with distinction university, long time works in the field of Advertising and the Internet. In 2000 left work in the field of design to devote himself to the Photo. Starting to remove the portraits, the bared nature, a fashion, a genre, studies works of world masters of a photo. Constantly being improved, Alexey concentrates on one direction - the Portrait. The Portrait carries away it most of all the depth and ambiguity.

Already at the beginning of the creative career of the photographer Alexey receives some prestigious international awards:" Photograph Of The Year / Merid Of Exelence "on" 2nd Annual Photography Masters Cup / International Color Awards. 2007 "," Outstanding Archievement "on" 2nd Annual Photography Masters Cup / International Color Awards. 2007 "," Gold Medal / Grand Award Winner "on" Trierenberg Super Circuit. 2006" and the certificate "Who Is Who" for merits in the field of Art.

In 2007 Alexey starts to remove in Russia the first large photoproject" In the ROLE of ", inviting to participate in it of rock music stars, and behind that and actors. Shooting behind shooting throughout several years. Author's style recognised now is at that time formed and there are first photos of a series about which will write then all Russian magazines and newspapers. Absolutely uncharacteristic for the Russian luster black-and-white images of Stars blindly, sincere emotions, strong characters and it is perfect without usual to general public of a lustre. All it looks as a call of the Russian journal photo. So on light there are the first "psychological portraits" (true portrait) the Russian stars.

In 2008 of "WIKIPEDIA" publishes article about Alexey as about one of significant and bright Russian photographers.

In 2008 in Moscow in one of the best Moscow exhibition spaces "WINERY" there pass at once Alexey Nikishin's two author's exhibitions - two parts of the project "In the ROLE of". Secular action on which all Moscow beau monde - known actors has gathered, musicians, art critics, glossy magazines and a teleimage. Opening of exhibitions is shined with leading Russian television channels, photos from an exhibition fly about all top magazines. They write about an exhibition, about unusual "live" photos of Stars and about a direction new to Russia to photos - "the Psychological portrait".

Characters and Alexey Nikishin's photos in Russia knows everyone: It the unique photographer who, has made the unique anthology of psychological portraits of the Russian creative intelligency of the beginning of the century: Andrey Makarevich, Chulpan Hamatova, Vyacheslav Butusov, Andrey Merzlikin, Maria Mironova, Alexander Zbruev, Anastasia Volochkova, Igor Kvasha, Marina Aleksandrova, Arthur Smoljaninov, groups "Agatha Christie", "Uma2urman", "Quarter" and many-many other.

Now Alexey Nikishin co-operates with glossy editions much, developing a direction of "a psychological portrait", writes articles about a photo to the most popular Russian magazines: Zoom, DigitalPhot,Photo-art, Psychology, Fashion Collection Billboard.

In 2009 there is Alexey Nikishin's published in common by magazines the first picture album "Digital Photo / the Photoworkshop". People of modern Russia have entered Into it in the field of culture more than 50 black-and-white portraits known. The book has been shown in April, 2009 at a personal exhibition of works which passed in Moscow at annual photofair "Fotoforum-2009".

In the spring 2009 on the basis of a material finished shooting in Russia Alexey Nikishin opens a series of personal exhibitions "Psychological portrait" at once in the several countries of the world: Latvia, Australia, the USA. The purpose of these exhibitions - to acquaint a wide audience with a direction of "the Russian psychological portrait". With support of the glossy magazines localised in the countries of carrying out of exhibitions Alexey Nikishin plans to spend photographings of representatives of local beau monde and known people in the field of culture and art for new, already international, the project.