Dmitry Markov was born in 1982 in Pushkin, a small town near Moscow (USSR).
Photographer, social worker, journalist, Dmitry worked as a volunteer in the Pskov region in a boarding school for mentally disabled children, as well as a tutor in the children’s village Fedkovo (Pskov charitable organization Rostok). Owner of the Silver Camera Grand Prix and PhotoPhilanthropy Activist Award, Dmitry Markov started the account in Instagram as an experiment, without any photographic claims. Everything changed when he participated in the Burn Diary’s project, for which he captured the daily life of Pskov (Russia).
In 2015, Dmitry Markov received a grant from Getty Images and Instagram, provided to photographers working in the field of documentary photography. In 2016 he became the first Russian participant in the Apple’s Taken on the iPhone campaign. His first book #Draft #Russia was published by Treemedia Editions in 2018.
He was part of the 2018 exhibition HOPE at the Manuel Rivera-Ortiz Foundation in France, Markov was exhibited by Agnès b. at PARIS PHOTO 2018 (and 2019) and in her gallery in Manhattan early 2019.
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