Dima Zharov was born in 1981 in Kazakhstan. Lives in Saint-Petersburg, Russia. Photojournalist, documentary photographer. Graduate student of “Fotografika” Academy of photojournalism and documentary photography (Russia). Finalist of Direct Look photo contest, 2017. Participant of Reclaiming Our Cultural Landscapes Exhibition at Birmingham Museum and Wolverhampton Art Gallery (UK), 2017. Published in "Spiegel Online", “Roads & Kingdoms”, “Mediazona”, “Open Russia”, “Lenta.ru” “Feature Shoot”, “Bird in Flight”, “Daily Mail”, “Russia Beyond The Headlines”
Projects
- Russian Kazakhs (Ongoing) In Russia, the Kazakh population lives in the regions bordering Kazakhstan. The 2010 Russian census recorded 647,732 Kazakhs living mostly in Astrakhan, Volgograd, Omsk and Saratov Regions. During the 1920s significant numbers of Kazakh families were left outside the designated Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic; after the end of the Soviet Union in 1991, they acquired Russian citizenship.