Edward Opp Explained

Edward Oppenheimer
Birth Date:4 June 1957
Birth Place:Wichita Falls, Texas, U.S.
Occupation:Photojournalism
Director of Photography, Kommersant Publishing House
Awards:World Press Photo, Russian Golden Eye award

Edward Oppenheimer (born June 4, 1957) is an American photojournalist based in Moscow, Russia.[1] [2] He currently works as Director of Photography for the Russian media group Kommersant in Moscow.[3]

Biography

Edward Oppenheimer grew up in Klamath Falls, a small town in southern Oregon. At age 13 he lived a year with his Uncle and family in Yokohama, Japan. There he was given his first camera and became a member of the school's[4] photography club. His last two years in high school he worked as a photographer/laboratory assistant at the local newspaper, The Herald and News.[5] After that time Edward Oppenheimer would return to photography only after his move to Moscow, Russia in 1992.

In 1980 he graduated from Lewis and Clark College with honors in Economics and a second degree in French. The last few years in college he began studying classical guitar and after graduation went to Paris to study with Michel Sadanowski[6] at «L'Universite Musicale Internationale de Paris». In 1983 a hand injury forced him to abandon musical studies. He moved to New York City and began working as a marketing analyst at Nabisco,[7] during that time he took acting lessons at HB Studio in Greenwich Village. In 1985 he began studying programming and in 1987, following a visit to a friend in Sweden, took a job in Stockholm with a small startup company, Dynasoft,[8] developing security software.

After a short tour of the Soviet Union in 1989 Oppenheimer soon returned to Leningrad to study Russian for a year at the University of Leningrad.[9] Impressed by the events unfolding in the Soviet Union in 1991, he moved to Moscow in 1992 and found work as a photographer for Kommersant, one of the new generation of newspapers to appear on the wave of Perestroika. In Moscow he studied photography with Alexander Lapin. During the 1990s he also worked freelance for several leading western publications and photo agencies, such as Time magazine, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Fortune, Stern, Sunday Times, The Independent, Black Star, and Sipa Press.

Oppenheimer (Opp) photographed a wide variety of social themes in Russia –village life, orphans, medical institutions, prostitution. Oppenheimer made several trips to the North Caucasus region during the First Chechen War and covered the Budyonnovsk hospital hostage crisis in 1995 and Pervomayskoye crisis in 1996 for Time magazine. He was an accredited photographer at the Russian State Duma and the Kremlin during the presidency of Boris Yeltsin.

Edward Opp's photographic style has been described by some as documentary and "impassive…, frightful…, cold…, hypersensitive to the moment".[10] He is currently Director of photography at the Kommersant Publishing House in Moscow which publishes a national daily newspaper, several news weekly and monthly periodicals, and is well known for its distinctive photographic approach.[11] [12] Oppenheimer (Opp) is a frequent guest of Russian cultural and political television discussion programs.[13] [14] [15]

Awards

Photo exhibitions and projects

Notes and References

  1. http://www.archive.worldpressphoto.org/search/layout/result/indeling/detailwpp/form/wpp/q/ishoofdafbeelding/true/trefwoord/photographer_formal/Opp%2C%20Edward World Press Photo – 1993, Edward Oppenheimer (Edward Opp), 2nd prize, Spot News stories
  2. http://www.ruj.ru/_awards/index.php The Journalist Union of Russia – Russian Golden Eye Laureates
  3. Web site: Kommersant – Editorial Staff . January 26, 2013 . https://web.archive.org/web/20130113174821/http://www.kommersant.com/Editorial.asp . January 13, 2013 . dead .
  4. http://www.yis.ac.jp/ Yokohama International School
  5. http://www.heraldandnews.com/ The Herald and News
  6. http://fr.yamaha.com/fr/artists/guitars_basses/michel_sadanowski/ Michel Sadanowski, Information sur l'artiste
  7. Web site: Nabisco . August 4, 2019 . https://web.archive.org/web/20080511205715/http://nabisco.com/ . May 11, 2008 . dead .
  8. Web site: July 15, 1997. Security Dynamics Acquires Dynasoft. RSA. January 15, 2013. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20131105065745/http://www.rsa.com/press_release.aspx?id=669. November 5, 2013.
  9. http://www.eng.spbu.ru/ Saint Petersburg State University
  10. Web site: June 6, 2003. Kommersant – Career Politics. A retrospective of Edward Oppenheimer (Edward Opp) at the Moscow House of Photography. Kommersant Newspaper. January 15, 2013. ru.
  11. Web site: July 3, 2003. Katerina Dolan. An Exhibition of Talent. Russianjournal.com. January 16, 2013. https://web.archive.org/web/20100207202530/http://russiajournal.com/node/15683. February 7, 2010. dead.
  12. http://digitaljournalist.org/issue9909/perkins.htm Lucian Perkins Photography
  13. http://tv.dvdmag.ru/index.asp?comm=13&num=65681&categor=57 In the Meantime with Alexander Arkhangelski, Cultural Roundtable Discussion
  14. http://www.1tv.ru/owa/win/ort6_oi.main_opened_one?p_razdel_id=1659&p_topic_id=2344Primary Instinct with Svetlana Sorokina. Social/Political talk show
  15. http://www.ren-tv.com/pages/pavel-astahov Three Corners with Pavel Astakhov, Social/Political Talk Show
  16. [:ru:Пресс Росси�%|Press photo of Russia (Interfoto) – Laureates]
  17. http://www.museum.ru/N19551 www.museum.ru – Front Page Photos. Photo exhibition in honor of the 15 year anniversary of the Kommersant Publishing House
  18. http://lenta.ru/culture/2004/10/14/primus Lenta.ru – Kommersant's Front Page Photos photo exhibition opened in Moscow, 14 October 2004
  19. http://www.film.ru/blog.asp?id=9 www.Film.ru. MMIF – Day Two, Jun 22, 2007, Olesya Volkova
  20. http://mamm-mdf.ru/exhibitions/eddie-opp-by-glance/?sphrase_id=789 The Moscow House of Photography – Edward Oppenheimer (Edward Opp): View from Aside
  21. http://www.itogi.ru/archive/2003/25/83876.html View from Aside. Photo exhibition opened at the Moscow House of Photography, Itogi, Jun 24, 2003
  22. https://archive.today/20130417045846/http://www.mikhailovsky.ru/en/events/photo_exhibition_of_kommersant_newspaper/?ELEMENT_CODE=photo_exhibition_of_kommersant_newspaper Mikhailovsky Theatre – Kommersant Newspaper Photo exhibition
  23. http://www.mamm-mdf.ru/exhibitions/kommersanty-svobodnaya-kamera/ The Moscow House of Photography – Kommersant, Liberty Camera

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