2021 – nowadays

TIMA creates a series of drawings and paintings, indicating his current interest in abstract visual art. In his work, TIMA explores various dimensions of human identity — the multifaceted nature of emotion, the spiritual inner-workings of behaviour and the aesthetic power of the human body. His artistic practice centres around a longing to understand the very essence of human nature, its potentials and constraints.

2019 – New York

The ultimate moment of transformation in TIMA’s artistic vision took place in New York. The artist no longer accepted commissions — he immersed himself wholly into an examination of art and history, whilst developing his interest in the ancient traditions of the Northern cultures. It is here that the artist began to take interest in the invisible and intangible, approaching art as a form of energy— working in the overwhelming context of COVID-19, TIMA focused on the illusions of reality, reflecting on the obsessive thought that everything was not as it seemed.

2011-2019

TIMA grew up in Salekhard, a small town in the Far North of Russia, which lies on the Arctic Circle. After his school graduation in 2006, TIMA began his journey as a photographer in a socio-political newspaper, capturing the local northern indigenous peoples of Salekhard (Khanty, Nenets).

2018

Throughout a period of 10 months TIMA sorts his archive, which covers his entire photographic career, cataloguing more than 2 million frames and 60 thousand people. The archival process of thorough reflection and categorization became crucial in confronting the transformation between TIMA’s career as a photographer and his new journey as an artist. His search for an artistic self-identity drove him to visit Tibet, India and Saudi Arabia, where he discovered the creative potential of spiritual practice. Meeting Sadhguru became a central turning point in his artistic and spiritual development.

2011-2017

TIMA becomes ambassador at Leica. He launches a personalised photography course at Leica Academy.

2016-2017

TIMA works with video-art, participates in projects as director, producer, screenwriter and art director. Together with Therr Maitz he released the ‘My Love is Like,’ music video, which gained millions of views on YouTube and won the Berlin Music Awards nomination for best music video.

2015

Participation in the ‘Reflections’ photography project, Moscow Museum of Modern Art (MOMA). Taking the cinematography of Andrei Tarkovsky as his subject of study, TIMA built a mirror installation on the banks of the Volga river, inside of which he photographed a variety of the films’ personages.Later that year, TIMA participated in the ‘Eyes of the Night’ exhibition, Art Basement, Moscow, in collaboration with Vogue Russia. The artist presented a compilation of worldwide celebrity portraits photographed by himself during the last five years.

2012

Collaboration with the supermodel and philanthropist, Natalia Vodianova. Working with the ‘Naked Heart’ foundation. Participation in the «Necker at Heart» charity foundation in Paris. Creation of a photographic series made in collaboration with orphanages for children with special needs across Russia, aimed at raising awareness amongst state institutions around the subject of physical violence and improper living conditions in order to improve the children’s condition of life.

2007

In 2007, the artist’s work was exhibited for the first time in a photography exhibition at the local art museum. Following this event TIMA moved to Moscow, where he lived and worked until 2019, whilst travelling around the world and continuing his photographic experiments with portraiture. He was interested in children’s without parents, pensioners and people without social support.

2006

TIMA grew up in Salekhard, a small town in the Far North of Russia, which lies on the Arctic Circle. After his school graduation in 2006, TIMA began his journey as a photographer in a socio-political newspaper, capturing the local northern indigenous peoples of Salekhard (Khanty, Nenets).