Zalman Shklyar

♦ Current employer and position
Founder of ZS Photo Agency (Russia) with over 25 years of experience in the field of photography

♦ Creative credo
Learn to see the world
"I am attracted to those perspectives that are out of my current reach. If I have a vision that one or another object will look very unusual than I will do everything possible to capture this vision. The image in my head is set with lightning speed – the space, the form and the rhythm. Single moment and I am building composition of geometric component that is interconnected with my internal aesthetics. In order for this to happen, intention has to be clear and not mixed with anything. You need to learn to see this world, which means understanding of it."

♦ Membership in professional associations
The Street Level Photography association, the Union of photoartists of Russia, the World Photography Organisation, the World Street Photography Organisation, the Moscow Novator photoclub, Head of photo school "The decisive moment of Zalman Shklyar" and is the chief editor of the online journal "Photoculture" .

♦ General info and style
Artist works in "street photography" and "noir" styles of photographic art. The human body plays an important poetic role in the picture which at the same time follows strict geometrical forms of surrounding architecture. Each piece of art represent the artist’s point of view which is dictated by his feelings and emotions.

♦ Reviews by renown photographers
The works of Zalman Shklyar have received numerous positive reviews from world-renowned photographers and art-critics, among them Max Kozloff, Gueorgui Pinkhassov, Bill Rauhauser, Rui Palha, John Free and Thomas Hoepker, Boris Savelev.

▬ Web: photozalman.org
▬ Instagram: instagram.com/photozalman
▬ Facebook: facebook.com/photozalman
▬ Flickr: flickr.com/photozalman
▬ Youtube: youtube.com/c/photozalman

♦ Personal exhibitions
▬ Poetics of Street-Photography. Human in geometry // The Art Club ‘182m2‘. Russia, Moscow, 2015
▬ Metaphysics in street photography // The A.P. Bogolub Art Library. Russia, Moscow, 2016
▬ Psychedelia of street photography-1516 // The Moscow Photo Club ‘Novator’. Russia, Moscow, 2016
▬ Street. The decisive moment// Riga Congress center. Latvia, Riga, 2017
▬ Symphony of the streets//Art Gallery Zahradnik. Czech Republic, Prague, 2017
▬ Colorless M. city// Gallery A3. Russia, Moscow, 2017

♦ Collectives exhibitions
▬ Planet Moscow. Street photography// The Government of Moscow, VDNKH exhibition complex & Dom na Brestskoy exhibition center. Russia, Moscow, 2016
▬ Parallels// Avanguard сenter of сulture and arts. Russia, Moscow, 2016
▬ Novator photoclub and Yubileinaya exhibition// Tushino exhibition center. Russia, Moscow, 2016-2017

♦ Reviews and Publications
▬ On the beauty of the world, unadorned // Russian Photo (web magazine). Russia, Moscow, 2015
▬ About street photography. Interview // 500streetphoto.net (web magazine). Russia, 2016
▬ Street photography is like a well with a bottom that can not be seen //Baltnews.lv, Latvia, Riga, 2017
▬ 12 street photos of Zalman Shklyar, which prove how important it is to capture a moment //Delfi.lv, Latvia, Riga, 2017
▬ Riga's coloring by photographer Zalman Shklyar //Vedomosti.lv, Latvia, Riga, 2017
▬ The five principles of street photography from Zalman Shklyar //Above Art (web magazine). Russia, Moscow, 2017
▬ Photography should make a person think //420on.cz, Prague, Czech Republic, 2017
▬ The picture is created by God. Interview //Radio Liberty, Prague, Czech Republic, 2017
▬ Music or poetry should be in photography. Interview // "the Prague Telegraph". №26 (421 ), Prague, Czech Republic, 2017
▬ I filter every shot through myself. Interview // Cultobzor.ru (web magazine), Moscow, Russia, 2017