Born on October 1, 1946, in
Krasnyi Lyman,
USSR (now Lyman,
Ukraine).
He got his first camera in 1958, started doing photography straight after.
From 1961 to 1965 he studied in Slavyanskiy technical college.
He served in the Soviet army from 1965 to 1968 (
Tbilisi,
Yerevan).
From 1969 to 1974 he studied in Kharkov Polytechnical Institute.
from 1979 to 1985 he studied in
Saint Petersburg at the
Imperial Academy of Arts.
Career
In 1974–1976 Jury co-founded a famous art group "
Vremya group" ("Time") in
Kharkiv.
From 1971 to 1985 he worked as a correspondent for "
TASS", "
Evening Kharkiv", "Red Flag", Kharkiv advertising combine.
In 1990 until 1993, together with
Aleksandr Maziuk, he opened the first private gallery in the USSR (
Tallinn,
Estonia).
From 1994 to 2001 he was managing director of the "Rupincom" stock photo agency.
HotShoe International (February – March 2009 issue) – Front Cover[4]
EYEMAZING Magazine (Issue 02 2009) – Article, including 6 photos[5]
Past Exhibitions (1974–1976)
In a very short 2-year period Jury's work has been successfully exhibited all around the world. Many works have collected exhibition awards.
In 1976 the
KGB has completely sealed any channels of sending Jury's photos abroad after a nude photo was discovered by a KGB agent in a package of photos sent for an exhibition.
Australia
Interphot 76 (Norwood South)
Angola
Grupo Desportivo e Curtural Da Sesil Do Ultramar (Luanda)
Argentina
Foto Club Buenos Aires (Buenos Aires)
Foto Club Argentino (Buenos Aires)
SalonInternational De Art Fotografico (Buenos Aires)
Belgium
2nd world festival of photographic arts
Fotoclub Virton
Virton-76
Brazil
Sosiedade Fluminense de Fotografia
Czechoslovakia
III INFOTA 1974 (Jičín)
IV INFOTA 1976, (Jičín)
Fotoforum Ruzomberok
Fotografia Academica
Vitkovice-74 (Ostrava)
Denmark
Den XIX (Havdrup)
The Society of Photographic Art (Havdrup)
France
4-e Salon de Photographies (Nîmes)
5eme Salon International D'art Photographique 1976 (Nîmes)
Vremya group (Kharkiv) exhibited at Student palace,
Kharkiv,
USSR, 1987, and "Сarte blanche a Boris Mikhailov" in Cite Internationale des Arts, Paris (September – October) 1999,