Igor Maloratsky

Igor Maloratsky was born St Petersburgh, Russia. He was interested in the visual arts from a young age. He started taking photographs in college. One of his first series was of the White Nights and the characters that populate them. He later moved to Moscow where he became an art dealer and gallery owner. In 1991 Igor moved to New York and fell in love with the city, a perfect forum for his art, prints, and posters.

While working as a printer with major photo-labs in New York, Maloratsky kept working on his art, prints, and posters. His career break came in 1997 when an art gallery purchased some of his prints. Since then his black-and-white and color photographs have been featured in many New York galleries. Igor currently lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.

Maloratsky on his work: "Every time I look around to take pictures I see something different, something new and fresh that keeps alive my love-affair with this great city. I especially like black-and-white photographs because the simpler the language, the stronger the sentence. I think it is the ideal medium to capture New York City and its atmospheres. But I also love to photograph New York in color. Some parts of it— like Times Square or the parades—are so intense themselves only color can really capture them."