Mikhail Sergeevich Petrov is a russian photo artist, social anthropologist, working with documentary photography and videography. Mikhail was born in 1985.
Member of the Russian Union of Art Photographers since 2017.
Six-time winner of the state scholarship for outstanding figures of culture and art of Russia. Multiple laureate and prize-winner at International and All-Russian photo competitions.
The author's interests include long-term projects dedicated to historical, socio-cultural and visual-anthropological research.
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Awards & achievements:
2025 – Laureate of the State scholarship for outstanding workers of culture and art of Russia
2025 – Finalist of the photo contest within the framework of the X International Photography Festival “PhotoKrok”
2024 – Winner of the International Photography Competition “LIGHT AND COLOR” in the nomination “City” (category “Single photographs”)
2024 – 1st degree laureate of the III All-Russian photo festival “DRAWING WITH LIGHT” in the nomination “Urban or architectural landscape” (2nd degree laureate in the nomination “Tourism photography”)
2024 – Diploma winner of the All-Russian photo contest “One Hundred Years of Russian Photo Landscape” of the IV Festival of Russian Art Photography named after Nikolay Andreev “Siberia-Serpukhov”
2024 – Laureate of the State scholarship for outstanding workers of culture and art of Russia
2023 – Diploma winner of the XIII All-Russian photography competition “Samara View – Russia” in the category “Everyday Life” (finalist in the category “Street Photo”)
2023 – Laureate of the State scholarship for outstanding workers of culture and art of Russia
2021 – Diploma winner of the Open All-Russian photo contest “PhotoSoyuz. Unity” in the “Architecture” and “Art-Photography” nominations
2021 – Diploma winner of the photo contest of the III All-Russian Festival of Russian Art Photography in memory of Vasily Ulitin (“Portrait of a Man. Russia. XX and XXI century”)
2020 – Laureate of the State scholarship for outstanding workers of culture and art of Russia
2020 – Finalist of the 19th All-Russian photo contest “Young Photographers of Russia-2020”
2019 – 1st place in the photo contest “Point on the map. Rhythms of everyday life” of the XIII International Festival of Photography “Photoparade in Uglich” in the “Culture & Traditions” nomination
2019 – Laureate of the State scholarship for outstanding workers of culture and art of Russia
2018 – Diploma winner of the 17th All-Russian photo contest “Young Photographers of Russia-2018” (special diploma for the project “Salt of the Earth”)
2018 – Laureate of the State scholarship for outstanding workers of culture and art of Russia
2017 – Joining the Russian Union of Art Photographers
Selected exhibitions:
2025 — Photo exhibition dedicated to the 35th anniversary of the Russian Union of Art Photographers (Krasnodar Regional Art Museum named after F. A. Kovalenko, Krasnodar, Russia) — Group
2025 – Photo exhibition “A Place in the Sun” within the framework of the X International Photography Festival “PhotoKrok” (Open Gallery under the Blue House, Vitebsk, Belarus) – Group
2025 – Photo exhibition “One Hundred Years of Russian Photo Landscape” (Gallery of Classical Photography, Moscow, Russia) – Group
2024 – Photo exhibition “My Animals” within the framework of the 19th annual photo competition named after I.Ya. Velikanov (Maloyaroslavl Museum and Exhibition Center named after I.A. Soldatenkov, Maloyaroslavets, Russia) — Group
2024 – IV All-Russian festival of Russian Art Photography named after Nikolay Andreev “Siberia-Serpukhov” (Museum Center “Peace Square”, Krasnoyarsk, Russia) — Group
2024 – III All-Russian photo festival “Drawing with Light” (I.S. Turgenev Library and Reading Room, Moscow, Russia) – Group
2024 – International Photography Festival “LIGHT AND COLOR” (City Park, Yelets, Russia) – Group
2023 – Photo exhibition “Samara View – Russia” (Gallery “New Space” of the Samara Regional Universal Scientific Library, Samara, Russia) – Group
2021 – All-Russian festival “PhotoSoyuz. Unity” (Museum complex “Kremlin”, Suzdal, Russia) – Group
2021 – Photo exhibition “Portrait of a Man. Russia. XX and XXI centuries” within the framework of the III All-Russian Festival of Russian Art Photography (Museum and exhibition center, Serpukhov, Russia) – Group
2020 – “Russian North in Mikhail Petrov’s photographs” (The main alley of Fili-Park, Moscow, Russia) – Personal
2020 – All-Russian festival “Young photographers of Russia – 2020″ (Innovative Cultural Center, Kaluga, Russia) – Group
2019 – XIII International Festival of Photography “Photoparade in Uglich” (Uglich Kremlin, Uglich, Russia) – Group
2019 – The Sense of Snow Festival (The main alley of Fili-Park, Moscow, Russia) – Group
2018 – All-Russian festival “Young photographers of Russia – 2018″ (Russian State Library for Young Adults, Moscow, Russia) – Group
Curating, organizing and artist talks:
2025 – Artist talk at the round table “Visual Methods in the Anthropology of Religion” (Saint Tikhon’s Orthodox University, Moscow, Russia)
2025 – Artist talk “How to photograph something that has already been swallowed up by history?” within the framework of the Photostrelka special festival and the opening of the blue season (N.F. Fedorov Library No. 180, Moscow, Russia)
2025 – Member of the jury of the photo competition within the framework of the 17th open children’s and youth festival “Photography as an image of the world” (Center for the development of creativity of children and youth “Hermes”, Moscow, Russia)
2022 – Artist talk with students of the Children’s Technopark “Izobretarium” (Izobretarium 2.0, Reutov, Russia)
2022 – Co-organizer of the photo exhibition “War in the Memory of the Soul and Heart”, dedicated to the employees of the Institute of Philosophy of the Russian Academy of Sciences – participants in the Great Patriotic War (Main Alley of the Fili Culture and Recreation Park, Moscow, Russia)
2020 – Co-organizer of the photo exhibition “Rock Nostalgia” and a creative evening of its author – rock photographer Sergei Eduardovich Babenko (Exhibition Center “Fili Hall”, Moscow, Russia)
2019 – Co-organizer of a photo exhibition and evening in memory of Alexander Alexandrovich Slyusarev in honor of his 75th birthday (Exhibition Center “Fili Hall”, Moscow, Russia)
