Jury Rupin


Jury Rupin was a photographer, artist, writer.

Biography

Early life and education

Born on October 1, 1946, in Krasnyi Lyman, USSR.
He got his first camera in 1958, started doing photography straight after.
From 1961 to 1965 he studied in Slavyanskiy technical college.
He served in the Soviet army from 1965 to 1968.
From 1969 to 1974 he studied in Kharkov Polytechnical Institute.
from 1979 to 1985 he studied in Saint Petersburg at the Imperial Academy of Arts.

Career

In 1974–1976 Jury co-founded a famous art group "Vremya group" in Kharkiv.
From 1971 to 1985 he worked as a correspondent for "TASS", "Evening Kharkiv", "Red Flag", Kharkiv advertising combine.
In 1990 until 1993, together with Aleksandr Maziuk, he opened the first private gallery in the USSR.
From 1994 to 2001 he was managing director of the "Rupincom" stock photo agency.
He died in Vilnius, Lithuania at aged 62.

Recent exhibitions and publications

In a very short 2-year period Jury's work has been successfully exhibited all around the world. Many works have collected exhibition awards.
In 1976 the KGB has completely sealed any channels of sending Jury's photos abroad after a nude photo was discovered by a KGB agent in a package of photos sent for an exhibition.
Australia
  • Interphot 76
Angola
  • Grupo Desportivo e Curtural Da Sesil Do Ultramar
Argentina
  • Foto Club Buenos Aires
  • Foto Club Argentino
  • SalonInternational De Art Fotografico
Belgium
  • 2nd world festival of photographic arts
  • Fotoclub Virton
  • Virton-76
Brazil
  • Sosiedade Fluminense de Fotografia
Czechoslovakia
  • III INFOTA 1974
  • IV INFOTA 1976,
  • Fotoforum Ruzomberok
  • Fotografia Academica
  • Vitkovice-74
Denmark
  • Den XIX
  • The Society of Photographic Art
France
  • 4-e Salon de Photographies
  • 5eme Salon International D'art Photographique 1976
  • Bordeaux
  • Cine Flach Club, Vincennes
  • Coupe charles phate
  • F.N.S.P.F, Paris
  • Macon
  • Mautes la Zolie
  • Photo9club ARTEK Moucron, Hersea
  • Salon International photographique
GDR
  • 6 Bifota
Germany
  • FotoFilmeclub
  • "Photokona"
  • International Neusser fotowochen
Holland
  • Fotomundi
India
  • PSMP, International Salon
Italy
  • Gruppo Fotografico Toro
Japan
  • Asahy Shimbun
Poland
  • Małe formaty 74
  • V Salon Portretu Artystycznego
  • Venus-74
  • Venus-75
Portugal
  • Repartição de Cltura e Turismo
Spain
  • Europa75 bienale de fotografia
  • Fotosport76
  • Sociedad Fotográfica Zaragoza
Sri Lanka
  • The Exhibition Photographic Society of Sri Lanka
Switzerland
  • Photo Club Aigle
  • Photo Club St-Gallem
Romania
  • Asociatia artiştilor fotografi
United Kingdom
USA
  • 18th Wichita International Salon of Photography
  • Bristol Salon of Photography
  • Mississippi Valley
  • Northwest International
  • Wichita international exhibition of photography
Yugoslavia
Jury Rupin is the founder of an art group "Vremya group" – well known both in Ukraine and the USSR.
The group has consisted of such photographers as Eugeny Pavlov, Oleg Malevanny, Aleksandr Suprun, Gennady Tubalev, Boris Mikhailov, Aleksandr Sitnichenko and later – Anatoly Makienko.
Vremya group exhibited at Student palace, Kharkiv, USSR, 1987, and "Сarte blanche a Boris Mikhailov" in Cite Internationale des Arts, Paris 1999,