Rupin, Yuri Konstantinovich

• Born October 1, 1946 in the city of Krasny Liman, Stalin Region in Ukraine.
• The first camera was received in 1958, then he began to shoot.
• From 1961 to 1965 he studied at the Slavic College. From 1965 to 1968 he served in the Soviet Army (Tbilisi, Yerevan).
• From 1969 to 1974 he studied at the Kharkov Polytechnic Institute.
• 1979-1985 he studied at the Leningrad Academy of Arts. Repin .
• In 1974-1976 he founded the Vremya creative group in Kharkov.
• From 1971 to 1985 he worked as a correspondent in TASS , Evening Kharkov, Red Banner, at the Kharkov Advertising Plant.
• In 1990-1993, together with Anatoly Mazyuk , he opened the first private gallery in the USSR, MRK, in Tallinn, Estonia.
• From 1994 to 2001 - General Director of the Rupinkom photo agency .
• Author of the text: “Diary of a photographer in the KGB archives” .
• He died in Vilnius on October 22, 2008.

Yuri Rupin is a co-founder of the most famous in Ukraine and the USSR as a whole creative group "Time" (1974-1976).

The group also included photographers such as Evgeny Pavlov , Oleg Malevanny , Alexander Suprun , Gennady Tubalev , Boris Mikhailov and Alexander Sitnichenko , and subsequently Anatoly Makienko .

• Students Palace Kharkov USSR 1987
• "Carte blanche a Boris Mikhailov" at the Cite Internationale des Arts, Paris (September-October) 1999

• Links for the group “Time” (Kharkov): Tatyana Pavlova, Kharkov, “Fan in the fist”
• “Boris Mikhailov:“ Conceptualism is an analytical position for me ”” “Art Journal” 2008 [1]

For a fairly short time, the existence of the group "Time" Yuri Rupin participated and won prizes at the following exhibitions around the world:

Australia

• Interphoto 76 (Norwood, South Australia)

Angola

• Grupo Desportivo e Curtural Da Sesil Do Ultramar (Luanda)

Argentina

• Foto Club Buenos Aires (Buenos Aires)
• Foto Сlub Argentino (Buenos Aires)
• Salon International De Art Fotografico (Buenos Aires)

Belgium

• 2nd world festival of photographic arts
• Fotoclub virton
• Virton-76

Brazil

• Sosiedade Fluminense de Fotografia

United Kingdom

• Edinburgh Photographic Society (Edinburgh)
• International Exhibition of Pictorial Photography

GDR

• 6 bifota (Berlin)

Germany

• FotoFilmeclub (Chapel)
• Photokona (Cologne)
• International neusser fotowochen

Holland

• Fotomundi

Denmark

• Den XIX (Howdrup)
• The Sosiety of Photographic Art (Howdrup)

Italy

• Gruppo Fotografico Toro (Torino)

India

• PSMP, International Salon (Bhopal)

Spain

• Europa75 bienale de fotografia
• Fotosport76 (Reus)
• Sosiedad fotografica zaragoza

Poland

• Małe formaty 74
• V Salon Portretu Artystycznego
• Venus-74 (Krakow)
• Venus-75 (Krakow)

Portugal

• Repartição de Cltura e Turismo (Porto)

Romania

• Asociatia artiştilor fotografi (Bucharest)

USA

• 18th Wichita International Salon of Photography
• Bristol Salon of Photography
• Mississippi Vadley, St. Louise
• Northwest International (Washington)
• Wichita international exhibition of photography

France

• 4-e Salon de Photographies Nimes (Nimes)
• 5eme Salon International D'art Photographique 1976 (Nimes)
• Bordeaux
• Cine Flach Club (Vincennes)
• Coupe charles phate
• FNSPF (Paris)
• Macon
• Mautes la zolie
• Photo9club ARTEK Moucron
• Salon International photographique (Bordeaux)

Czechoslovakia

• III INFOTA 1974 (Jicin)
• IV INFOTA 1976 (Jicin)
• Fotoforum ruzomberok
• Fotografia academicmica
• Vitkovice-74 (Ostrava)

Switzerland

• Photo Club Aigle
• Photo Club St-Gallem

Sri Lanka

• The Exhibition Photographic Society of Sri Lanka

Yugoslavia

• Foto klub Natron
• Sterijino Pozorje (New Garden)

Japan

• Asahi Shimbun (Tokyo)

• Photography Day at London Art Fair 2009
• HotShoe International (February - March 2009) - Cover
• EYEMAZING Magazine (No. 02 2009) - Article

• Rupin Yuri personal site
• Diary of a photographer in the KGB archives
• Rupin Yuri Konstantinovich: Literature
• Rupin Yuri Konstantinovich photos
• Photos on Photographer.Ru
• Tatyana Pavlova, Kharkov photo, with her group "Time"