Gallery Photographer.ru is pleased to present six prints by Boris Smelov:
A genius, that broke up and burned out too early – at 10 he felt inclination for photography, at 18 he realized himself to be a “photoartist” (not a photographer, as he used to stress), at 24 after his first personal exhibition he one day turned into a dissident, but still managed to gain a prestigious International prix a couple of years later – a Gold Medal at 11th International Salon of Photo Art in Budapest (Hungary). He perished tragic and unexpectedly in St.Petersburg when he was only 46. Today his prints are often compared with photographs taken by Cartier-Bresson, Doisneau and Curtis. An image of St.Petersburg he created in his photos turned out to be so profound and all-embracing, that the theme seems to be closed for years ahead. The photographs Gallery Photographer.ru holds come from the artist`s family archive and are true authentic prints made by Smelov.
