About me
Vladimir Sevrinovsky
Born in 1975, Russia, Moscow
Russian journalist, photographer, documentary filmmaker. Expert on the regions of Russia.
Vladimir has Ph.D. in Economics. In 2011 he abandoned successful career in business to become a traveler and an independent journalist. He visited all regions of Russia and wrote multiple award-winning stories. Later he began to support them with photos. and film documentaries. Now his dominant sphere of interest is the Northern Caucasus. He became one of the leading experts on the ethnography of local nations. He also uses every chance to explore different cultures in other parts of Russia. Vladimir collaborates successfully with TV companies of Switzerland, Germany and Great Britain. One of the docs he produced was nominated for an Oscar. Since 2022 he documents the impact of war on Russian society.
Documentary film festivals and awards
Director, cameraman
2024 — Rory Peck Award (Great Britain) shortlist
2024 — Artdocfest Online, ArtDocSet (Latvia) shortlist
2023 — Top Indy Film Awards (Japan) Best documentary feature, Best editing, Best message awards
2020 — Stalker (Russia), ArtDocSet (Latvia) shortlist
Producer
2021 — Hot Docs (Canada) Best international feature, Guanahuato film festival (Mexico) International feature documentary award, Russian national award “Laurel branch”, Oscar nomination
Selected photo exhibitions and festivals
2022 — Exhibitions “Feeling of home” and “Women’s world in the traditional and modern art of Dagestan” (Moscow)
2021 — Personal Photo Exhibition in the Norilsk Museum “The white crow and the dark crow”
2021 — Personal Photo Exhibition in the Space Place gallery (Nizhny Tagil)
2018, 2019 — Uglich Photo Parade
2017, 2018, 2019 — Russian Geographic Society
2018 — Balkhar Photo Exhibition, The museum of Makhachkala, Dagestan
2017 — selected works of TASS photographers
Photo Awards
2021 — Alexander Efremov contest, honorary mention of jury
2019 — Uglich Photo Parade, winner
2018, 2019 The most beautiful Country by the Russian Geographic Society, nominee
Journalist / writer awards
The True Story Award (major international longlist award) — long-list
The Big Book (major Russian book award) — long-list
Best Books of the Year — short-list
Redkollegia — winner, 29-time nominee
The Southern Spark — four-time winner
North is the borderless Country, winner
The Voice of the North, winner
Unknown Russia, winner
Pushkin in Britain, winner
“Profession — journalist” — short-list
Zhar-Kniga (major Russian book design award) — short-list
Akhmednabi Akhmednabiev Award, 2th place
Books
Live Dagestan, 2021
People on the map, 2019
Traditional festivals of Dagestan, 2018
Multinational Russia, 2014
Education
2018 — 2020 School of modern photography DocDocDoc (Saint-Petersburg)
1998 — 2000 State Management University, postgraduate
1992 — 1997 State Management University, faculty of world economics
