Russian photojournalist and photographer Vladimir Lagrange has died at the age of 82. This was announced on Saturday, January 22, by the founder of the Lumiere Brothers Gallery and Center for Photography, Natalya Grigorieva-Litvinskaya.
“Again, it’s empty. But today it’s really hard. Volodya is gone,” she wrote on Facebook.
Lagrange was born in Moscow in 1939. In 1959 he entered the professional environment of photojournalism, in 1963 he took part in his first international exhibition in Budapest, where he received the Gold Medal for his photograph “Little Ballerinas”.
A year later he entered the Moscow State University. Lomonosov (Moscow State University) at the Faculty of Journalism.
From 1963 to 1989 he was a special photojournalist for the Soviet Union magazine, in 1989-1991 he worked for the Rodina magazine, in 1991-1995 he worked in the Moscow bureau of the French agency Sipa Press.
Source: IZ
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