About the Artist

Mikhail Paramonov is a fine-art photographer working with themes of silence, intimacy, youth, and natural presence.

His practice focuses on the fragile intersection between light, breath, and the unguarded human moment — when a person stops performing and simply exists. Through minimalism and natural light, Paramonov constructs a visual world where the body becomes an extension of the landscape, and emotion reveals itself through stillness rather than pose. His photographs combine softness, directness, and a quiet cinematic tension, creating images that feel both intimate and timeless.

Over the past two decades, Paramonov has developed a consistent artistic language built around trust and the absence of theatricality. He works almost exclusively with available light and in unconstructed environments, allowing each image to emerge organically rather than through direction or staging.

His work has been published internationally and exhibited in museum and gallery spaces in Russia and Europe. Paramonov’s monographs include collaborations with established European art publishers as well as limited-run artist editions, and his images have been included in several curated museum publications.

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

Gallery REFLEX, Moscow, 2003

(Dedicated to Tinto Brass)

Selected Publications

(International fine-art editions, curated monographs, museum releases)

Beauty Without Glamour

Russian Museum Publication, 2013

Museum monograph accompanying the exhibition.

A study of unembellished presence and natural emotional clarity.

Natural Light Portraits

Goliath Books, 2018

A fine-art collection exploring the quiet intensity of form and atmosphere through natural light.

Silent Forms

Edition Reuss, 2019

A curated series of minimalist portraits focused on gesture, mood, and emotional transparency.

Youth and Stillness

Goliath Books, 2012

Observations of fragile transition, tenderness, and quiet transformation.

Embrace of Light

Edition Reuss, 2016

An intimate sequence of outdoor natural-light studies captured in remote spaces.

Tender Bodies

Goliath Books, 2021

A monograph dedicated to purity of form, warmth, and organic sensuality.

Human Landscapes

Edition Reuss, 2020

An interplay between environment, gesture, and subtle emotional depth.

Eros: The Times and People

Manege Publishing, 2007

Published for the exhibition at the Central Exhibition Hall, St. Petersburg.

Digital Editions (2018–2024)

Private digital monographs available to collectors and institutions.

(Full catalogue available upon request.)

Press (selected)

Playboy — Feature, 2017

Penthouse — Feature, 2015

(Presented only as editorial features, not as primary artistic publications.)

Artist Statement

I work with light, silence, and trust.

My photographs are born in moments where a person is no longer performing — where presence replaces pose, and the world becomes still enough for something real to appear.