Jury Rupin (October 1, 1946, Krasnyi Lyman, USSR (now Lyman, Ukraine) – October 22, 2008, Vilnius, Lithuania) was a photographer, artist, writer.
Early life and education
Born on October 1, 1946 in Krasnyi Lyman, USSR (now Lyman, Ukraine). He got his first camera in 1958, started doing photography straight after. From 1961 to 1965 he studied in Slavyanskiy technical college. He served in the Soviet army from 1965 to 1968 (Tbilisi, Yerevan). From 1969 to 1974 he studied in Kharkov Polytechnical Institute. from 1979–1985 he studied in Saint Petersburg at the Imperial Academy of Arts.
In 1974–1976 he started a famous art group "Vremya group" ("Time") in Kharkiv. From 1971 to 1985 he worked as a correspondent for "TASS", "Evening Kharkiv", "Red Flag", Kharkiv advertising combine. In 1990 until 1993, together with Aleksandr Maziuk, he opened the first private gallery in the USSR (Tallinn, Estonia). From 1994 to 2001 he was managing director of the "Rupincom" stock photo agency. He died in Vilnius, Lithuania at aged 62.
Recent exhibitions and publications
Illustration for "How to think like a Russian" by Nobel laureate Svetlana Alexievich in the Telegraph, London 2016“Borderline. Ukrainian Art 1985–2004”, PinchukArtCentre, Kiev 30 May 2015 - 4 October 2015Photography Day at London Art Fair 2009HotShoe International (February – March 2009 issue) – Front CoverEYEMAZING Magazine (Issue 02 2009) – Article, including 6 photosIn a very short 2-year period Jury's work has been successfully exhibited all around the world. Many works have collected exhibition awards. In 1976 the KGB has completely sealed any channels of sending Jury's photos abroad after a nude photo was discovered by a KGB agent in a package of photos sent for an exhibition.
Australia
Interphot 76 (Norwood South)Angola
Grupo Desportivo e Curtural Da Sesil Do Ultramar (Luanda)Argentina
Foto Club Buenos Aires (Buenos Aires)Foto Club Argentino (Buenos Aires)SalonInternational De Art Fotografico (Buenos Aires)Belgium
2nd world festival of photographic artsFotoclub VirtonVirton-76Brazil
Sosiedade Fluminense de FotografiaCzechoslovakia
III INFOTA 1974 (Jičín)IV INFOTA 1976, (Jičín)Fotoforum RuzomberokFotografia AcademicaVitkovice-74 (Ostrava)Denmark
Den XIX (Havdrup)The Society of Photographic Art (Havdrup)France
4-e Salon de Photographies (Nîmes)5eme Salon International D'art Photographique 1976 (Nîmes)BordeauxCine Flach Club, VincennesCoupe charles phateF.N.S.P.F, ParisMaconMautes la ZoliePhoto9club ARTEK Moucron, HerseaSalon International photographique (Bordeaux)GDR
6 Bifota (Berlin)Germany
FotoFilmeclub (Kapellen)"Photokona" (Köln)International Neusser fotowochenHolland
FotomundiIndia
PSMP, International Salon ( Bhopal)Italy
Gruppo Fotografico Toro (Torino)Japan
Asahy Shimbun (Tokyo)Poland
Małe formaty 74V Salon Portretu ArtystycznegoVenus-74 (Kraków)Venus-75 (Kraków)Portugal
Repartição de Cltura e Turismo (Porto)Spain
Europa75 bienale de fotografiaFotosport76 (Reus)Sociedad Fotográfica ZaragozaSri Lanka
The Exhibition Photographic Society of Sri LankaSwitzerland
Photo Club Aigle (Aigle)Photo Club St-GallemRomania
Asociatia artiştilor fotografi (Bucureşti)United Kingdom
Edinburgh Photographic SocietyInternational Exhibition of Pictorial PhotographyUSA
18th Wichita International Salon of PhotographyBristol Salon of PhotographyMississippi Valley (St. Louise)Northwest International (Washington)Wichita international exhibition of photographyYugoslavia
Foto klub Natron (Maglai)Sterijino Pozorje (Novi Sad)Jury Rupin is the founder of an art group "Vremya group" – well known both in Ukraine and the USSR (1974–1976).The group has consisted of such photographers as Eugeny Pavlov, Oleg Malevanny, Aleksandr Suprun, Gennady Tubalev, Boris Mikhailov, Aleksandr Sitnichenko and later – Anatoly Makienko.Student palace, Kharkiv, USSR, 1987"Сarte blanche a Boris Mikhailov" in Cite Internationale des Arts, Paris (September – October) 1999Articles mentioning the Vremya group
Tatyana Pavlova, Kharkiv (Russian)Boris Mikhailov: "I see Conceptualism as an analitical position", "Art Magazine" 2008