Denis sinyakov biography

Denis Sinyakov is one of the most renowned Russian photographers. He was a photo editor and staff photographer for Reuters and AFP for 10 years, and has become a freelance photographer in 2012. He works mostly on his own photo and documentary cinema projects.

One may find his works in Der Spiegel, Helsingin Sanomat, Meduza, CNN, Al Jazeera etc.

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In 2013 he was arrested among the crew of the Greenpeace boat “Arctic Sunrise” for attempting to hold a protest action on the one of the gas production platforms in the Pechora Sea.

Denis is the author of this photo; he chose the picture among the ten most favorite ones of his career.

This is how he described his experience of meeting FEMEN activists and the story behind making the photo in his own words:

“March 3, 2012. Moscow. Oksana, Anna and Irina – Ukrainian activists of FEMEN Movement are preparing to the action at the polling place.

It was obvious, that voting results are going to be rigged, thus FEMEN decided to make a performanc