Discover Top Freelancers in Russia

Sergey Ponomarev is a freelance photographer. Before becoming a freelancer in 2012, Mr. Ponomarev worked for the Associated Press starting in 2003. Mr. Ponomarev is best known for his photojournalism works depicting Russian daily life and culture as well as news images from the Libyan uprisal. He has won many international and domestic photography awards. Most recently, Mr. Ponomarev won the third place prize, in the war category, at the 2014 Picture of the Year contest, WorldPressPhoto General news 3rd Place, received an honorable mention in the 2014 National Geographic Photo Contest, was shortlisted for the Terry O’Neil Photography awards and earned an award of excellence from the Society of Publishers in Asia for his moving coverage of Typhoon Haiyan. Born in Moscow, Mr. Ponomarev graduated Moscow State University and Academy of Labor and Social Relations. He enjoys snowboarding, researching history, watching war movies

• Editorial Photographer / Photojournalist
• Commercial DP
• Video Editor - Commercial

My name is Konstantin Salomatin. I am a multimedia journalist based in Moscow, Russia. My passion is covering human interest stories and finding something extraordinary in everyday life. In 2017 I have expanded my professional interest to documentary filmmaking. Since then, I have been shooting documentaries and news video for various international media platforms including Radio Free Europe/Current time tv (Russia), Eurasianet, The Economist, Vox Pot (Czech Republic), Romb (Russia), infoNetwork (Germany). I started a career as a photojournalist in 2002 working for various local newspapers, and in 2009 started to work as a freelancer with Russian Reporter magazine. As a photographer, I have worked for many international media, such as NRC Handelsblad (The Netherlands), Le Monde (France), NPR (US), Expert magazine, Ogonyok magazine, Russian Reporter magazine, Chicago Tribune, Kommersant, Geo magazine Russia, Newsweek (Russia), China Daily, Sports Net Magazine (Canada), among others. Awards 2019 - Redkollegia award for the documentary “Shies under the siege”. 2019 - “Profession journalist”, Berlin, for the text reportage “Clockwork Mandarin” about Xinjiang repressions. 2012 - Leica Oscar Barnac top ten, for the photo project “The End” about the community of people who awaits the apocalypse.

• Documentary DP
• News Shooter / Video Journalist
• Fixer
• Production Assistant

A seasoned multilingual media professional specializing in newsgathering and content development from around the world for domestic and international audiences. I have produced and reported multiple short and long news stories, live shots, special programs, exclusive features, documentary segments and interviews with top officials and newsmakers in Russia, post-USSR region and internationally, gained access to many hard-to-get places, stories and individuals. Extensively traveled the region and the world, covered international and domestic politics, wars and revolutions, major scheduled events, economic news, science, cultural and sports events. I have worked in hostile environments, in extreme weather conditions, hand in hand with some of the best professionals in the industry from VICE Media, Thomson Reuters, CNN, BBC World, RTE, CBC, PRI, Discovery etc.

• Fixer
• Reporter / Journalist
• Mobile Journalist / Livestreamer
• News Shooter / Video Journalist
• Commercial DP
• Creative Director
• Field Producer
• TV News Producer
• Production Company
• Editorial Photographer / Photojournalist
• Translator
• Documentary DP
• Video Editor - News
• Video Editor - Documentary
• Video Editor - Commercial
• Production Assistant

EDUCATION AND QUALIFICATIONS 2011 – 2015 National and Kapodistrian University of Athens Faculty: Communication & Mass Media 2011 – 2015 Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University (Russian State University) Faculty: Advertising & PR 2015 - till now The Higher School of Economics Mediaproduction in creative industries WORK EXPERIENCE I've worked as a journalist and assistant of PR-manager in advertising company during my studies in Greece. Also I taught Russian there and then worked as event-manager. I know pretty well Greek and English, so I do translations from English/Greek to Russian. When I came to Russia, I was working for well-known Russian News Agency "Rossiya Segodnya" as editor-translator. Then I decided that my dream job is a job in film industry as a producer or director. I wish I could participate in that kind of projects.

• Documentary DP
• Video Editor - News
• Reporter / Journalist
• Editorial Photographer / Photojournalist
• Translator
• Video Editor - Documentary
• Video Editor - Commercial

I was born in 1980 in the small city Tula. At 2001 I finished Teacher Training university like philologist. Then I moved in Moscow and begun to work like a photographer and journalist in Social magazines and newspaper. At 2014 I finished VGIK and got high documentary film director education. Now I am the member of Documentary film and TV Guild, in the list of 200 best documentary filmmakers in Russia in 2013 and 2014 years. I made 10 art - documentary films and about 15 commercial ones. The art – documentary film «Salmon has a hot blood» took part in short film corner in Cannes film festival at 2014 and in another large film festival in Russia. This film was bought by Russian TV channels for broadcasting. Now I making my new film, “The fighter». This film is about how the reach Russian men around 40-ty got their faith in God.

• Commercial DP
• Video Editor - News
• Reporter / Journalist
• Editorial Photographer / Photojournalist
• Documentary DP
• Video Editor - Documentary
• Video Editor - Commercial
• Fixer

Education 2000 – graduated from VGIK film school (Russian National Institute of Cinematography) Dept. of Directing. I worked as a journalist, writer, director and producer. I got to the theater DOC (Moscow) and was fascinated by the freedom prevailed there. I maked some plays there, one of them is about the contradictions of Russian political PR at the beginning of the 21st century. Directed Movies 180 beat, doc. 95 min, about Russia 90th and rave-party. “Waiting for Vano”, art documentary about Russian-Georgian war, 60 min. “Kaleidoscope”, feature film, 90 min drama, comedy. “Vladimir Vysotskii, 205 days”, tells about narcotic agony of a famous Soviet poet and actor, doc “Law”, documentary, 15 min, A film about Russian narcotics law, part of the “White Death” documentary series. “Hacker”, documentary, 40 min

• News Shooter / Video Journalist
• Fixer
• Documentary DP
• Video Editor - News
• Video Editor - Documentary
• Video Editor - Commercial
• Editorial Photographer / Photojournalist
• Reporter / Journalist
• Mobile Journalist / Livestreamer

Study TV and political journalism at the Moscow State University, I'm in my last year as a bachelor. I've started working as a correspondent at school in the local newspaper and news agency. Having been a a first-year student, I wrote for Russian magazines "The Ogoniok" and "The Journalist". Then had an experience as a correspondent on the channel "Russia-24" and this summer joined to the channel "TV-Rain", but could not work full-time because of my diploma, but hope to become a part of this amazing editorial team after University. By the way, my diploma is a documentary film, and now I work on it. I'm interested in political, social and cultural themes. And, of course, in documentaries. I know how to use video and photo-cameras, Adobe-Premier and other programs and can introduce myself as a universal journalist.

• News Shooter / Video Journalist
• Reporter / Journalist
• On-Air Reporter / Host
• Documentary DP
• Video Editor - News
• Video Editor - Documentary
• Video Editor - Commercial

Correspondent, journalist. Experience - over 10 years (since 2004). Author of over 700 articles in journals and Internet resources in Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan and USA, such as «the Chief», «Finance», «Open Economy», «Joint Herald», «The Russia Journal», «Leningrad region. Economy and Investments» (under the Government of the LR), «Competition and market» (journal of the FAS for the NWFD), «Consumers Compass», «BorderNewsNetwork» (USA), gaap.ru etc. Experience in TV/video: the program "Man and law" (Russia, channel 1, 2013 - present), the channel LOT (2006-2008), the creation of educational videos for the Moscow business school (2008-2010), program "Zworykin project" (2008-2010), National open Institute of Russia (2015). The winner of the IX international competition for business journalism PRESSZVANIE.

• News Shooter / Video Journalist
• Sound Mixer
• Reporter / Journalist
• Editorial Photographer / Photojournalist
• On-Air Reporter / Host
• Video Editor - News
• Video Editor - Documentary
• Video Editor - Commercial

Open Russia specializes in covering politics, development issues and current affairs in Russia. We are ready to create special series, news stories in video format and also documentaries. Open Russia team has a wide experience in all stages of production process (from pre-production to post-production). We are proficient in video journalism and video editing techniques. Open Russia has required technical assistance for shooting, editing and also creating all the types of graphics (interactive and static). We can conduct interviews and cover current affairs for foreign media. Cheap and fast. Now the Open Russia crew covers a story about Nagorno-Karabakh. We want to reach out if there is an opportunity for us to work together and we’re ready to work on your next project.

• News Shooter / Video Journalist
• Fixer
• TV News Producer
• Drone Operator
• Documentary DP
• Video Editor - News
• Video Editor - Documentary
• Video Editor - Commercial

Russian/Canadian documentary director, cinematographer, producer. Directed 6 feature-length and 8 short documentaries to date. Led and took part in film projects in Syria, Iraq, Lebanon, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Senegal, Guinea, Serbia, Bosnia, Canada, US, UK, the Netherlands, Russia and other countries. Received a B.A. (Hon) in Communications and Political Science from the University of Toronto/Sheridan College and a Ms.C. in International Relations from the University of Amsterdam. Winner of the Canada Screen Award for “Best Research” for HBO’s “Tales from the Organ Trade”. Five-time returning judge for the News and Documentary Emmy Awards. Speaks fluent English, Russian and intermediate Arabic.

• News Shooter / Video Journalist
• Documentary DP
• Senior Producer / Project Manager
• Non-Fiction Film Director
• Fixer
• Field Producer
• Translator
• TV News Producer
• Line Producer / On-Location

Mary Gelman is a Russian documentary photographer and a member of VII Photo Agency After getting a degree in sociology, she was involved in photography and focused on topics such as vulnerability and trauma, its implications; life, and the ideology of alternative communities. The most important part of her practice is diving deeper into the topics and interactions with people, where empathy, trust, and understanding are significant. Mary has been a winner of different competitions. She's the recipient of the World Press Photo, Leica Oskar Barnack Award, Pictures of the Year, Portraits - Hellerau Photography Award, Istanbul Photo Awards, Andrei Stenin International Photo Contest. She works for The New York Times, The Washington Post, UNICEF, and many others

• Editorial Photographer / Photojournalist
• Portrait Photographer
• Event Photographer
• Landscape Photographer
• Product Photographer
• News Shooter / Video Journalist
• Fashion Photographer
• Reporter / Journalist
• Documentary DP

Hello! My name is Sergey, I was born in 1983 in Moscow and still live in this city. For the last five years I have been working as a freelance operator. Until February 2022, my main customer was the German TV channel Deutsche Welle, for which I filmed TV reports and documentaries. In addition to Deutsche Welle, I also worked on other projects. In May 2022, I shot a documentary in Armenia. In November, I shot a corporate video for a pharmaceutical company in the Republic of the Congo. In the summer of 2021, I participated in the filming of a documentary about village football as a second cameraman and drone pilot. You can see other documentaries on my VIMEO. I will be glad to find new customers here. Most of all I want to shoot documentary projects for TV or for festivals.

• Documentary DP
• Drone Operator
• News Shooter / Video Journalist
• Corporate Videographer
• Video Editor - Documentary
• Video Editor - News

Director and producer. Graduate from the Ural State University, department of journalism (2002) and Moscow-based Institute of Cinematography, department of documentary film directing (2007). Has been working with various studios since 2004, making documentaries. Her short movies (Faithful, the Old Dacha, Unemployed) have taken part in most prestigious festivals around Europe (DOK Leipzig, IFF Jihlava, etc.) and have won numerous awards. Her first full-length film LINAR was released in 2013, successfully screened and awarded internationally with premiere in Thessaloniki Documentary Film Festival as the Opening Film. Focuses mainly on human stories.

• Commercial DP
• Video Editor - News
• Sound Mixer
• Documentary DP
• Video Editor - Documentary
• Video Editor - Commercial
• Creative Director
• Production Company

Kiril Ivanov is a self-shooting wildlife filmmaker, underwater cameraman and author of more then 20 documentaries about nature and underwater world. He was born and grew up on Lake Baikal, Siberia. He graduated Irkutsk Foreign Language University. He started his career as a tour-guide. After he worked at Baikal Museum and Limnological Institute of RAS. In 1998 he started scuba diving and underwater video. Kiril took part in many scientific research trips as scientist diver and uw cameraman. Also he took part in film projects of Équipe Cousteau and many famous film companies like BBC, TBS, NHK, NHNZ, ZED and others.

• News Shooter / Video Journalist
• Documentary DP
• Video Editor - News
• Sound Mixer
• Video Editor - Documentary
• Video Editor - Commercial
• Fixer
• Translator

I am DI Colorist, Filmmaker, Photographer. I`ve been doing video production and post-production for more than 5 years. I have a color suite (a room for color grading with professional equipment) that fits ISO 3664 and ISO 12646. Internet upload/download speed is 100 Mbps (1 Gbps by special request). I also have a backup Internet line. My workspace has uninterruptible power supplies for all devices, as well as RAID storage for data and a cloud backup. I work with clients range from micro businesses to international companies for short-terms and long-terms contracts, while delivering individual approach and the service quality like big video production companies.

• Production Company
• Sound Designer
• Commercial DP
• Video Editor - Commercial
• Production Assistant
• Colorist
• Post-Production Manager
• Motion Graphics Designer

Hi! I'm a young and determined Videojournalist based in Moscow, Russia, who is willing to evolve in international media. Have more than a 5-year experience in both Russian and international outlets, prominent Russian and English speaker. Bachelor degree in TV and Cinema Production at the Gerasimov's State University of Cinematography (VGIK). A fast thinker who has wide experience both at breaking news and at soft stories. What I can offer for you: Video production (ENG/drone/live transmission), production assistance (research, fixer job), any kind of field production, translation (Russian-English).

• Field Producer
• TV News Producer
• Video Editor - News
• Reporter / Journalist
• Mobile Journalist / Livestreamer
• News Shooter / Video Journalist
• HD Live Operator
• Fixer
• Production Assistant

I'm from Russian town of Vologda, located in the North-West of Russia. we have one of the oldest in Russia an independent video studios. We are working since 1998. Create documentary, TV shows, cover events happening in our region. cooperate with TV channels. In our team covers the events of the first persons and other cultural and political developments of the region. In our film library a lot of Documentaries. there are professional translators who can do the adaptation not only documentary, but a feature film. For us no problem out in any part of the region, Russia, for the Russian, independent view of the world, on any topic.

• News Shooter / Video Journalist
• Commercial DP
• Documentary DP
• Drone Operator
• Video Editor - News
• Sound Mixer
• Editorial Photographer / Photojournalist
• Translator
• Video Editor - Documentary
• Video Editor - Commercial
• Production Company
• Senior Producer / Project Manager
• Series Producer / Show Runner
• Non-Fiction Film Director

Was born in 1968 in Moscow, Russia. From 1992 to 2002 lived in New York City (USA). In 2001 studied in New York film Academy. In 2005 graduated from Higher courses of screenwriters and film directors in Moscow, Russia. From 2005 to the present works as a director, author, editor and DP. Directed commercials and corporate films for brands such as Transaero, Aeroflot, Kristall diamonds, LensMaster, Moscow Urban Forum and others. Made short films and tv documentaries for Channel One, TV3, Russia Today. In 2012 attended documentary workshop in a Higher School of Journalism. A member of the Russian Documentary Guild from 2013.

• News Shooter / Video Journalist
• Commercial DP
• Video Editor - News
• Documentary DP
• Video Editor - Documentary
• Video Editor - Commercial
• Production Company
• Senior Producer / Project Manager

Истории людей. Правда, человек и его история - это то, что меня вдохновляет и то, о чем я снимаю. Герои моих работ - люди, которые рассказывают о себе правду и эта правда оказывается сильнее и интереснее, любого вымысла. Зачастую в объектив моей камеры попадают те, кого принято называть «невидимыми»: люди, которых общество не хочет замечать: пенсионеры в переходах, незрячие, люди с ограниченными возможностями здоровья, и не только. Я готов делиться историями о силе добра, изобретательности, силе духа и воли, невероятных поступках, справедливости и несправедливости.

• News Shooter / Video Journalist
• Fixer
• Documentary DP
• Non-Fiction Film Director
• Corporate Videographer

I am a professional journalist with extensive experience in television journalism and media analysis. Currently, I work as a Journalist-Editor at Russia 1, "Vesti", where I oversee news production, fact-checking, and social media management. I also contribute as a Leading Analyst at Autran Group, providing in-depth geopolitical insights. My experience spans breaking news, live reporting, and digital content management, with a focus on delivering accurate and timely information. Fluent in Russian and English, I aim to further develop my expertise in global media.

• Reporter / Journalist
• News Shooter / Video Journalist
• Video Editor - News
• TV News Producer
• Social Media Producer
• Senior Editor