Sergei Korolyov

Korolyov Sergei Nikolayevich born 5 November 1951 in Leningrad. 1974–1976, he worked as electrician at the State Hermitage Museum. 1976–1978, he was a crew member of a train ferry at the Baltic shipyard, where he met Sergei Podgorkov. Invited by Podgorkov, he began to attend meetings of the Kirov DK photo club. In 1979, graduated from the Department of Philology of the Leningrad State University. From 1980 on, he occasionally attended meetings of the Zerkalo club at the Karl Marx DK. In the autumn of 1985, after his “creative report”, he was admitted as full-fledged member of the Zerkalo club. Between 1987 and 1989, he worked at the photographic lab of the Leningrad State Archive of Documentary Films, Photographs and Sound Recordings. Over this period of time, he made prints from the glass plate negatives which were part of the Bulla dynasty archive. Some of them were displayed in the exhibition organized by the Zerkalo club at premises of the library in 99 Ligovsky Prospekt. In 1989, he joined the Ligovka group. In 1989, after the club had split, he ceased to attend Zerkalo’s meetings. From 1989 until 1991, he worked as photographer at the Leningrad Institute of Railway Engineers. In the early 90s, amid the increasing attention paid to Perestroika photography, he participated in exhibitions in the USA, France, and Germany. Since 2000, he has worked at the Passport and ID Photo Studio.