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, 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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Independent Monographs

Wild Innocence, 2009  

Russian Lolita, 2010  

First Time Nude, 2012  

Vintage Girls, 2012  

Nensis’ Little Secret, 2014  

Walk with Masha, 2015  

Paramonov Pictures, 2023

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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

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Some works remain intentionally private.