Mikhail Paramonov is a photographer working with intimacy, silence, memory, and the fragile distance between people and the places they pass through.

His photographs are made mostly with available light and unstaged situations. He is drawn to moments when a person stops performing and simply exists — in a room, in a city, in nature, in the brief space between movement and stillness.

For more than two decades, Paramonov has built a personal visual archive around youth, trust, vulnerability, and quiet observation. His work moves between intimate portraiture, natural landscapes, and recent black-and-white studies of urban solitude in Japan.

His photographs have appeared in exhibitions, museum projects, independent monographs, editorial publications, and artist editions.

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Selected Exhibitions

BEAUTY WITHOUT GLAMOUR

Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, 2013

EROS. THE TIMES AND PEOPLE

Central Exhibition Hall Manege, St. Petersburg, 2007

FLED AND SHOT, dedicated to Tinto Brass

Gallery Reflex, Moscow, 2003

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Selected Publications

Russian Lolitas — Goliath, 2013

Beauty Without Glamour — Russian Museum, 2013

Sweet Shaven Angels — Edition Reuss, 2011

Natural Young Beauties — Goliath, 2012

Nylon Parade — Goliath, 2018

Nude Angels in Nature — Edition Reuss, 2016

Natural & Naked — Goliath, 2018

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Press

Playboy — Feature, 2017

Penthouse — Feature, 2015

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Current Artist Series

Permission to Look — The Trust Edition, 2025

Permission to Look Volume II, 2025

Permission to Look — Gift Edition, 2025

Between Lives, 2026

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Some works remain intentionally private.