*03/12/86 in Leningrad
raised in St. Petersburg & Dortmund
based in Berlin, Germany
German / English / Russian
· Bachelor of Arts in Photography at the University of Applied Sience in Dortmund
· Member of Burn my Eye Collective
· Lecturer at Ostkreuzschule für Fotografie in Berlin since 2024
· Member of Fotobus e.V.
· Member of Freelens e.V.
· Member of the German Academy of Photography DFA since 2018
· Founder of pupupublishing
Based in Berlin, Nikita Teryoshin (*1986) was born in Leningrad, USSR. When he was 13-years old his family moved to Dortmund, Germany where he went on to earn a Bachelor of Arts in Photography. His father Vladimir Teryoshin was a painter and set designer at the theater and television. Visiting his dad's working place, full of requisites and mysterious stuff, made a strong impression on Nikita.
Since then he remained interested in backstages set up by the media, industry or politics. Also the photographic research on the relationship between humans and animals is an big part of his work.
In 2008 during his studies after first discovering the work and irony of Elliott Erwitt, he became obsessed with documentary photography. He graduated with ‘Hornless Heritage’ (2014 - 2017), which focuses on the matrix-like world of the moderm dairy cows. "Animal Escape Plan" (2021) shows animals, who managed to escape the slaughter house and survive, to show them not as victims, but as heroes. His recent project "Life Sentence" deals with the artifical worlds of the Zoos. His main project ‘Nothing Personal’ (2016-2024) deals with the global arms trade. It won the World Press Photo 2020 and has been exhibited and published widely. In 2024 he published his first monograph ‘Nothing Personal - the back office of war’ with GOST books His clients a.o. are ZEIT, Stern, Spiegel, New Yorker, NYT, GQ, 11Freunde, Bloomberg, SZ, Le Monde.
Since 2020 he is also running his small own publisher pupupublishing.
He describes his genres as street, documentary and everyday horror is a member of Burn My Eye photography collective.
awards and mentions:
· Photo España Book Award First Prize 2024
· Rencontres Arles Book Award Sortlist 2024
· Leica Oskar Barnack Award Finalist 2021
· Hansel-Mieth-Preis Finalist 2021
· World Press Photo 2020 First Prize Contemporary Issues
· World Press Photo 2020 Nomination Picture of the Year
· World Report Award First Prize, Fotografia Etica, LODI 2020
· Münzenberg Forum Berlin, Second Prize 2020
· Kolga Tbilisi Winner Documentary 2020
· Miami Street Photography Festival 2019 1st Prize for "Nothing Personal"
· Cortona On The Move Finalist w/ "Grannies strike back" 2019
· PH Museum Grant 2019 1st Prize
· Athens Photo Festival 2019, Shortlist with "Nothing Personal"
· ARTE Award for Hornless Heritage, Berlin 2018
· Voies Off Selection, Arles, France 2018
· Lumix Award Hannover Shortlist with "Hornless Heritage"
· Kassel Dummy Award Shortlist with "Hornless Heritage" 2018
· Shortlist @ Kolga Tbilisi with Road to Galia and Hornless Heritage
· Nominated with "Game of Chairs" for the Henry Nannen Preis 2018
· VG BildKunst Grant 2018
· Shortlist with "Mother of Dragons", Rückblende 2017
· 3rd Price for "Hornless Heritage", NTU IPA, Singapore 2017
· EASTREET 4 Book & Exhibition, Poland 2017
· Shortlist with "Nothing Personal", N-Ost Reportagepreis 2017
· Shortlist with "Hornless Heritage", Athens Photo Festival 2017
If you would like to buy a print, publish a piece of work, single images
or just drop me a line, feel free to contact me!
books:
“System” 2011
“Domästicx” 2011
“Hornloses Erbe” 2017
“Carte des Vins”, pupupublishing 2020
“Backyard Diaries - United Colours of Bangkok Backyard”, pupupublishing 2020
“Backyard Diaries - Vol.1 - St. Petersburg” 2020, pupupublishing 2020
“Animal Escape Plan”, pupupublishing 2022
“Backyard Diaries - Vol.2 - Bangkok”, pupupublishing 2023
“Nothing Personal - the back office of war”, GOST 2024
“Backyard Diaries - Vol.3 - Atlantic City”, pupupublishing 2024
“O Tannenbaum”, pupupublishing 2024
interviews:
Samuel Streetlife Interview (youtube)
Nearest Truth Podcast episode 418
SWR Kultur (TV)
Bird in Flight
Business Punk
It's nice that
Picdrop Podcast
selected publications:
XXI (FR)
11FREUNDE
6 MOIS (FR)
AIGA Eye on Design
AFAR (US)
American Chordata (US)
The Atlantic (US)
Bloomberg Businessweek (US)
BOOOOOOOM
brand eins
British Journal of Photography (UK)
Business Insider (US)
BUSINESS PUNK
Calvert Journal (UK)
CAPITAL
CICERO
CNN (US)
Conscientious by Jörg M. Colberg (US)
Correctiv
Courrier International (FR)
DB Mobil
DIE ZEIT
Design Metropole Ruhr
DUMMY
EDISON
Emerge Magazin
Eyeshot Magazine (IT)
FISHEYE (FR)
Fluter
FOCUS
Free Men's World
Der FREITAG
De Morgen (BEL)
De Standaard (BEL)
FuturZwei
GALORE
GEO
GEO Kompakt
GEO Wissen
Greenpeace Magazine
GQ (US)
GUP Magazine (NL)
Heimatdesign Magazin
HUCK Magazine
Harpers (US)
iGNANT
Internazionale (IT)
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It's nice that (UK) I II III IV V
Journalisten (DK)
Journalist (DE)
JWD
Le Temps (CH)
Lodown Magazine
M Le magazine du Monde (FR)
Manager Magazin
METEORE (CH)
MINT
MONOCLE (GB)
Monopol
Mouvement (FR)
MUSIKEXPRESS
NEON
The New York Times
The New Yorker
NIDO
Noisey
NO SPORTS
Pay Magazine
Philosophie Magazin
PHOTONEWS
P.M.
Port Magazine (UK)
Politiken (DK)
Quaterly (FAZ)
Revue Epic (FR)
Rolling Stone (DE)
Sir Edmund (NL)
Society (FR)
SPIEGEL
SPIEGEL WISSEN
STERN
STERN Crime
Süddeutsche Zeitung
Sunday Times magazine (UK)
SZ Magazin
SWR
Tagesspiegel
Tagesspiegel Berliner
taz.Die Tageszeitung
taz.FuturZwei
Think:Act
Trust
ufunk (FR)
Urbane Künste Ruhr (Book)
VISIONS
VICE (ALPS)(GER)(PL)
VOGUE Italy
WIRED (US)
VIEW
Vrij Nederland
WirtschaftsWoche
WOZ (CH)
ZEIT Campus
ZEIT Christ und Welt
ZEIT Entdecken
ZEIT Geld
ZEIT Germany
ZEIT Magazin
ZEIT Magazin International
ZEIT Verbrechen
ZENO (BEL)
Zimmer Eins
selected clients:
Aktion Mensch
Alain Bieber
BBDO
DOJO
Golden Cosmos
Greenpeace
Emscher Genossenschaft
EON
Jan Böhmermann
Four Music
Land Brandenburg
Muehlhousemoers
Mark Forster
Nikon
Plan D
ProSieben
Profoto
RBB
Schauspiel Köln
Scholz & Friends
Sony Music
Spotify
Theodor Heuss Stiftung
Thilo Mischke
TenTenTeam
Villa Concordia
Wessinger und Peng