Ira Prohorova was born in Yekaterinburg, Russia and moved to Tel Aviv, Israel in autumn of 2015.
Since 2010 she has been engaged in photography, specialization - portrait photography. Mostly knowns for her photo portraits of Russian and Israeli musicians, actors, dancers, and artists.
Since 2011, she has been creating video works, like a scriptwriter, director, cameraman, and editor at the same time.
Since 2013 she has been teaching photography.
Education:
2007 - 2011 – Ural State Academy of Architecture and Art (USAAA), specialty "Informatics in Architecture" (full-time education, incomplete higher education).
2019 - 2020 – studied in pre-academic art school "HaGarazh". Specialization – Fine Art. Continuation of studies - 1 academic year (completed).
2020-present – studying for a bachelor's degree at the College of Education, Technology and Art "Seminar Ha-Kibbutzim" at the Faculty of Arts, specialization – "Digital Art" and "Art Education".
Exhibitions:
2015 - Video performance at Street Art Gallery "Sweater", Yekaterinburg, Russia
2020 - Installation "The Eyes", photography (collage), 12 * 3m.
Museum of Street Art "Pop Up Museum TLV 2", Tel Aviv, Israel; collective exhibition "This is just a dream". Curator: Yaara Sachs
2020 - Group exhibition "La Culture: Relief", Maze 9, Tel Aviv. Curator: Itay Blaish
Selected works - video:
2015 – made the video "Amor Entrave -"Tver", with the participation of the 3rd Ural Industrial Biennale of Contemporary Art.
2017 – made the video "The art of Uri Blayer" for Ilana Goor Museum and Rothschild Fine Art Gallery. Ilana Gur, an artist, collector, and owner of the Ilana Gur Museum described the work as a high-quality and highly artistic mini-portrait film.
Selected works - photography:
2012 – "The dreamers" series - one of the most famous series of this photographer, which was highly appreciated by the curators of 1x.com and others, one of the photographs are exhibited at fineartamerika.com
2014 – Shooting for Givenchy brand (Cute, project "L'Atelier de Givenchy")
2018 – Photo project with SPCA, which has been publicised in many Israeli newspapers and sites as: ynet.co.il, israelhayom.co.il, timeout.co.il, www.maariv.co.il, www.yediot.co. il
2012 – pres. – the photo project "The Eyes", exhibited at the street art museum "Pop Up Museum TLV 2", Tel Aviv, Israel in 2020.
Publications in print media:
2014 – Magazine "Mister", issues: №18, №23, Russia
2015 – Magazine "Stolnik", issues: September, October, Russia
2017 – Magazine "Shavuon le isha", Israel
2020 – Catalogue "HaGarage", 2020, Israel
Publications in online editions:
forbs.com, bloomberg.com, art1.ru, thepaper.cn, sobaka.ru, meduza.io, etc.
Selected interviews:
2015 – "Acquaintance with Ira Prohorova", Photo Academy "Geometry" (Russia)
2015 – Interview - "Colta" (colta.ru)
2015 – "How the Ural sailboat ended up in Cyprus" - EKV TV channel (ekaterinburg.tv)
2016 – "Tel Alive + 5'nizza. Video project of Ira Prohorova"- beinisrael.com (RUS)
2020 – "Interview with photographer Ira Prohorova" - First Radio 81.1FM (Israel)
2020 – "Interview with photographer Ira Prohorova" - Linden Staub Russia (Russia)