Residences, Italy, Firenze, 20 July 2009
Yola Monakhov is the winner of the 2008 Fellowship granted by the Municipality of Greve in Chianti (FI).
Her project at the residence is: " Ciò ch’io vidi : un pellegrinaggio con Dante." The intention is to create photographs of the Dante’s Commedia in the Tuscany of today and explore the basic ideas for photography: realism, poetry, metaphysics, and the connections between landscape, culture and history, between language and image, and between metaphor and thing.
Yola Monakhov was born in Russia .She studied comparative literature and Italian at the University of Wisconsin, Madison and has a master’s degree in Italian literature from Columbia University. As a photojournalist, Yola Monakhov photographed in Kosovo, Iran, Afghanistan, the Middle East and the former Soviet Union while on assignment for publications including the New Yorker, New York Times, Newsweek, and other American and European magazines. In the past few years , having turned her attention to fine art photography , Monakhov has often returned to her native city of Moscow to photograph post-Soviet life . She graduated in 2007 with an MFA from Columbia University ‘s School of Art. Currently she teaches photography at Columbia University and Mercer College and is a contributing photographer for the New Yorker magazine. She has exhibited in the United States and Russia.
Her project at the residence is: " Ciò ch’io vidi : un pellegrinaggio con Dante." The intention is to create photographs of the Dante’s Commedia in the Tuscany of today and explore the basic ideas for photography: realism, poetry, metaphysics, and the connections between landscape, culture and history, between language and image, and between metaphor and thing.
Yola Monakhov was born in Russia .She studied comparative literature and Italian at the University of Wisconsin, Madison and has a master’s degree in Italian literature from Columbia University. As a photojournalist, Yola Monakhov photographed in Kosovo, Iran, Afghanistan, the Middle East and the former Soviet Union while on assignment for publications including the New Yorker, New York Times, Newsweek, and other American and European magazines. In the past few years , having turned her attention to fine art photography , Monakhov has often returned to her native city of Moscow to photograph post-Soviet life . She graduated in 2007 with an MFA from Columbia University ‘s School of Art. Currently she teaches photography at Columbia University and Mercer College and is a contributing photographer for the New Yorker magazine. She has exhibited in the United States and Russia.
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