Lyudmila Fedorenko

Fedorenko Lyudmila Alexandrovna born 10 March 1961 in Krasnodar. Between 1979 and 1986, she studied at the Leningrad Mining Institute. From the early 1980s until the mid-1990s, worked at the photographic lab of the Glavleningradstroy Design and Engineering Institute and did architectural, art reproduction, genre and portrait photography. In 1984, she began attending the Zerkalo photo club at the Karl Marx DK. In 1986, she opened her first solo exhibition, entitled Fifty Three Photographs. In May 1986, upon submitting her “creative report”, she was admitted as a member of the Zerkalo photo club. In 1987, because of her close contacts with the TAK group, she began to attend Zerkalo’s meetings less frequently. In 1988, she became a member of the Fotogalereya (Photo Gallery) art association. As such, she took part in the construction of Interfotogalereya, the first gallery dedicated to photography in Leningrad. In 1992, she became a member of the Photopostscriptum association. In 1995, after the exhibition Photo-Reclamation: New Art from Moscow and Saint Petersburg, organized by the curator B. Tailor at the John Hansard Gallery in London, she quit professional photography. Between 1995 and 1997, her works were displayed in the Peterburgskaya Fotoarkheologiya (Petersburg Photoarchaeology) exhibition project.

Lyudmila Fedorenko’s artistic manner is characterized by the project-oriented vision and large series of works which explores amateur photography within the historical context of personal memory.