Nikita Pirogov (b. 1989 Leningrad, USSR) is an award-winning Russian born multimedia artist, poet, and photographer. He studied in RGISI (Saint-Petersburg, Russia) and has an MFA from IED Madrid (Spain). He works with photography, poetry, sculpture, installation, video and performance. He is an author of two books: poetry book “The house of light” (2021) and photography book “Weeper Grass” (2021). He has been exhibited internationally on more than 50 venues, such as International Photography Festival in Pingyao and Dali, China, FotoFest International in Houston, TX, USA, Month of Photography in Bratislava, Slovakia, International Festival of Photography PhotoVisa in Krasnodar, Russia, CLIF in Curitiba, Brasil and many others. His work has been widely published in monographs, books and catalogues on paper and online in Greece, France, Germany, USA, Russia, Netherlands, Slovakia, UK, Spain, Italy and other countries, including such writings as Notes on Performatist Photography by Raoul Eshelman, Notes on the History of Russian Photography by Irina Chmyreva, Essay on The Other Shore series by Louise Clements (1000words magazine) and Andreas Spiegl (Eikon) and many others. Nikita’s works are in collection of State Russian Museum (Saint-Petersburg, Russia), Galleri Image (Aarhus, Denmark), Festival Images (Vevey, Switzerland), Indian Photographic Archive and in private collections in North America, Europe and Asia. He also got several nominations and awards such as Foam Paul Huf (nominee, 2022), Festival Images (special mention, nominee, 2012, 2021), International Photography Grant (2020, nominee), Portfolio Reviews in Bratislava, Slovakia, Vienna, Austria and Moscow, Russia (winner, 2010), IED Madrid Scholarship (winner, 2010) and others. He works with Spiritual Photography, touching themes of memory, human nature, spiritual liberation, peace and freedom. He currently lives and works in Siem Reap, Cambodia.