Bio
Igor Skabelin is a post-documentary photographer from Russia, based in Moscow. In his personal projects he explores themes of social inequality, human rights, political and civic activism. In 2021-2024 he studied at the Docdocdoc school. His work has been published in MBK Media, Project media, Greenpeace, the Telegram channel Avtozak LIVE, TASS and Skillbox. Igor won Pictures of the Year Asia 2024 (POY Asia) in the Issue Reporting Picture Story category. He is a finalist in the Mediaburger-2021 contest for young journalists of the 7×7 Horizontal Russia online magazine in the Photo Reportage category.
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Education
2021-2024 Docdocdoc School of Contemporary Photography. Documentary Photography and Photojournalism, Post-Documentary Photography and Experiments of contemporary photography courses
2021 Moscow Rodchenko School of Photography and Multimedia. Course “About Light”
2020 LEVEL ONE. Workshop 100 years of photography
Awards
2024 Winner of Pictures of the Year Asia 2024 (POY Asia) in the Issue Reporting Picture Story
2021 Finalist of the Mediaburger-2021 contest in the Photo Report category
Publications
2024 LensCulture — Emerging Talent Awards 2024 Competition Gallery
2024 Skillbox
2023-2024 TASS
2022 Greenpeace
2021-2022 Avtozak Live
2021 Project media
2021 MBK Media