Mikhail Paramonov is a photographer working with intimacy, silence, memory, and the fragile distance between people and the places they pass through.
His photographs are made mostly with available light and in unstaged situations. He is drawn to moments when a person stops performing and simply exists — in a room, in a city, in nature, in the brief space between movement and stillness.
For more than two decades, Paramonov has built a personal visual archive around youth, trust, vulnerability, and quiet observation. His work moves between intimate portraiture, natural landscapes, and recent black-and-white studies of urban solitude in Japan.
His photographs have appeared in exhibitions, museum projects, independent monographs, artist books, and international publications.
Selected Exhibitions
Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, 2013
EROS. THE TIMES AND PEOPLE
Central Exhibition Hall Manege, St. Petersburg, 2007
FLED AND SHOT, dedicated to Tinto Brass
Gallery Reflex, Moscow, 2003
Selected Publications
Between Lives — Blurb, 2026
Small Sweet Butts 2 — Edition Reuss, 2026
Sweet Small Breasts — Edition Reuss, 2026
Small Sweet Butts — Edition Reuss, 2025
Bottomless Girls — Edition Reuss, 2024
Naked Girls Club — Goliath, 2021
Super Sweet Girls 2 — Edition Reuss, 2019
Natural & Naked — Goliath, 2018
Nylon Parade — Goliath, 2018
Super Sweet Girls — Edition Reuss, 2017
Nude Angels in Nature — Edition Reuss, 2016
Romantic Nudes — Edition Reuss, 2015
Sweet Shaven Angels 3 — Edition Reuss, 2013
Beauty Without Glamour — Russian Museum, 2013
Wild Lolitas — Goliath, 2013
Erotic Photography Vol. 4 — Mammoth, 2013
Natural Young Beauties — Goliath, 2012
Sweet Shaven Angels — Edition Reuss, 2011
New Erotic Photography — Mammoth, 2010
Independent Artist Books
Alongside his internationally published monographs, Paramonov has produced a continuing series of independent artist books and limited editions,
including independently produced artist books and limited editions.
These books form an ongoing personal archive developed alongside his work with international publishers.
Recent Artist Books & Projects
Between Lives, 2026
Permission to Look — The Trust Edition, 2025
Permission to Look — Volume II, 2025
Permission to Look — Gift Edition, 2025
Selected Press
Playboy — Feature, 2017
Penthouse — Feature, 2015
Some works remain intentionally private.
