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EGOR KHVOSTOV
Critical Fine Art Photography

Egor is a Moscow-based photographer working in the field of critical fine art photography. His practice is built at the intersection of visual art and interdisciplinary inquiry.
Drawing on an academic background in history and political science — a BA from Moscow State Pedagogical University and an MA from the University of Manchester — Egor uses photography as an instrument for deconstructing reality. His work exposes the hidden mechanisms of power, hierarchy, and identity encoded within everyday landscapes.
Working predominantly in black and white, Egor distances his practice from the decorative in order to foreground the conceptual integrity of the series as a whole.

Critical Fine Art Photography

Critical fine art photography sits at the intersection of these two impulses — it uses the visual language of documentary practice to ask questions that documentary alone doesn't ask: about power, about memory, about what gets seen and what doesn't. This is not photography as illustration. It is photography as a form of inquiry — grounded in social theory, political thought, and a belief that images can do more than describe the world. They can help us think about it differently.

NEW STORY MODE

New Story Mode is his authorial methodology: a counterpoint to passive image consumption. A shift from surface aesthetics to the analysis of meaning. Critical fine art as a way to dissect the norm — to place the self-evident under scrutiny, and to reveal within the frame not merely a subject, but a structure of social and political relations.
EXHIBITIONS & PRESENTATIONS / PUBLICATIONS & PRESS
SOLO EXHIBITION
«Escape to Emigration»
Moscow School of Social and Economic Sciences (Shaninka)
Moscow, Russia
April 18 – July 31, 2024

ZINE LAUNCH & EXHIBITION
«Vodka Bar» — Zine Presentation
Ryumochnaya in Zuzino, Moscow, Russia
July 16, 2025

EDITORIAL / LONG READ
"Ryumochnaya: A Place of Power for Three Generations of Moscow Underground"
Knife Media — feature on the «Vodka Bar» project

PRESS / SOCIAL MEDIA
Московские Новости
Coverage of the «Vodka Bar» project — Telegram channel (@mnews_ru)
Схожу, пожалуй / Москва
Feature and audience reach — Telegram channel (@shozhu_msk)