Elena Darikovich was born in Moscow in 1951. She has worked as a photographer since 1976, but is also known as a painter. At one time she worked very closely with Boris Savelev – they seem to have encouraged and inspired each other to further focus on abstraction and light-play. Savelev’s work can be brash; Darikovich is thoughtful, intelligent and intuitive. More than the other photographers of the 70s group, Darikovich allows the people in her photographs a strong presence, but her work is at the same time exceptionally rigorous and formal.

Selected Exhibitions

• 1986, Museum of Fine Arts, Oxford, UK
• 1987, Valokuva Gallery, Helsinki, Finland
• 1988, "Contemporary Soviet Photography", Museut for Foto Kunst, Odense, Denmark
• 'Say Cheese!', Comptoir de la Photographie, Paris, France
• Portfolio Gallery, London, UK
• Museum of Cinema, Moscow, Russia
• Museum of Fine Arts, San Diego, USA
• Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, USA
• 1989, Burden Gallery, New York, USA
• "What is Photography?' (150th Anniversary of Photography), National Museum, Prague, Czechoslovakia
• 1990, Tennessee University, USA -"Changing Reality",
• Corcoran Gallery, Washington, USA
• 1991, Roy Boyd Gallery, Chicago, USA
• Carnegie Mellon Art Gallery, USA
• Huntsville Museum , USA
• 1992, Rosa Esman Gallery, New York, USA -Worcester Art Museum, USA
• 1993, Bass Museum of Art, USA

Bibliography

D.Mrazkova and V. Rernez, Another Russia, Thames and Hudson, London, 1986

Tenely Eskola & Hannu Eerikainnen, Toisinnakijat/Uusi valokuva neuvostolutossa, SN-Kirjat, Helsinki, 1988,

Finland World and 1. Washington, 1990

Leah Bendavid-Val, Changing Reality

Recent Soviet Photography, Starwood Publishers., Washington, 1991