Nikita's work has been exhibited internationally on more than 80 venues in Asia, Europe, North and Latin America and Oceania.
His first project, The Other Shore, got international recognition and was exhibited on many Photography Festivals in North America, Europe and Asia, including such venues as FotoFest International, Houston, TX, USA, Month of Photography in Bratislava, SK, solo shows in Galleri Image, Aarhus, DK and in Vevey, CH and many others.
The project has been shown on International Talent Support Competition in Trieste, IT, Dali International Exhibition, Yunnan, China, International festival of Photography in Seoul, South Korea, small flat show in Saint-Petersburg, Russia, at the street art festival Street. Place. For everyone, at exhibition in Asolo, Italy as well as other shows and festivals.
Nikita has won portfolio reviews in Bratislava, Slovakia, Vienna, Austria and in Moscow, Russia, with this work. He has also been shortlisted at festivals in Arles, FR and Braga, PT. Also, the series got a Special Sympathy Prize in Dali, Yunnan, China, a honorable mention in Beverly Hills, CA, USA, was selected as finalist in International Talent Support Competition in Trieste, IT. It has been awarded with numerous other awards and prizes too.
The work has been widely published online, in books, magazines and catalogues in Europe, North America, and Asia and is in public and private collections of some important institutions in US, Russia and Europe.
Nikita's second project called Diptychs was created in Europe in 2012-2013 as his Masters degree project in IED Madrid. The work has been shown in Amsterdam, Netherlands, Braga, Portugal, Krasnodar and Saint-Petersburg, Russia, published on Lensculture, Calvert Journal, Phases magazine and some other sources.
The work touched topics of interaction of different cultures, experiences, languages and traditions. Inspired by rich European culture, Nikita created bridges between Russia and Europe and showed it through poetic, subjective and emotional works that have different points of interpretation. This work has big geography, including Russian and European countries.
festival in Pingyao, China with his Presence series. At the same time Nikita publishes two books - Photography Book "Weeper Grass" and poetry book "House of light". Weeper Grass book gets shortlisted at Festival Images competition.
Nikita keeps participating in poetry life - he reads his poems at festivals, publish online and keeps writing.
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In 2014, Nikita moves to Asia where he creates several new projects - including Transition Time, Diaries of a Sailor and I and Thou, that were shown in Russia, China, Brazil, Denmark, US and other countries. The diaries of a Sailor was shown on BRICS forum in Brazil, Transition Time participated in Annual International exhibition in Dali, Yunnan, China. I and Thou was exhibited at HCP Auction in Houston, USA, and in Saint-Petersburg, Russia. At the same time, there were several publications released: Lensculture in Paris, France, Photoworld magazine in Beijing, China, CLIF publication in Curitiba, Brazil and European Photography magazine in Berlin, Germany as well as others.
At the time Nikita's career lifts to a new level - his practice of I Ching and discovery of a Buddhist tradition in his family highlights on new themes and topics that give new dimension to his work. Mixing European, Russian and Asian cultures he develops his own unique style that exists on the junction of civilizations - Western and Eastern. Nikita explores Christian narratives, mixing them with Jewish philosophy and adding Buddhist unjudgmental contemplative visual form that shows unity of the world at the time. Nikita always had a strong feeling of time and always depicted it in his works.
Next projects (Presence, Seeing the Essence, Broken Hope) show rapidly changing world that is moving towards a crisis. Presence series shows a special state, a feeling of some sort of emptiness, and at the same fullness as if something was present and absent at the same time. Seeing the Essence project talks on important topic of change and transformation. Broken Hope series was created in Cambodia and talks on very important narrative for all Nikita's future work - connection between human, nature, spirits and planet. This project broadly explores Khmer culture, diving into casual life of modern Cambodians, often showing life of rural communities and those who are rejected by the majorities. This project explores Cambodian historical, cultural and religious heritage and links Russian and Cambodian history and visual narrative.
Nikita's work has been always innovative and experimental. In Broken Hope series he comes closer to documentary photography, still staying at edge of art photography. He mixes classic storytelling with experimental view - in his work trees and stones can speak, sky can be a character and plate of fruits can tell a story of a whole generation.
He continues to exhibit his work internationally at such venues as FotoFest in Houston, TX, USA and publishing it in various magazines (Phases, Greece, New Art Studies, Russia and others). At the time Nikita starts actively teaching in prestigious photography schools (Fotografika, New York School of Photography) and jurying several photography competitions.
Nikita's next projects - Pictures for Anna, Family Archive and Song of a Prayer (2019-2020) explore themes of family relationships and longing. Projects were nominated to International Photography Grant (USA) and exhibited in Long Distance gallery and at Photovisa festival in Krasnodar, Russia.
In 2021 Nikita's work participates in a big group show in the new Pennlab gallery in Moscow. Later he presents his work as NFT at Petersburg Economic Forum and participates in