Vladislav Semenov (*1984) is an internationally active photographer based in Switzerland.
From childhood, he witnessed radical changes: he grew up in post-Soviet Russia in the 1990s and emigrated to France as a teenager, lived in Paris as a student, and then returned to Russia working in Moscow for several years.
Having started his career with journalistic essays in his youth, Semenov began to take his first photographs in the mid-2000s, making "sketches" of the French city of Lyon on Soviet cameras.
Semenov’s biculturalism inspired his first long-term personal project, photographing during his trips in Russia & other Post-Soviet states. Besides urban spectatorship, the love of nature impregnates Semenov’s work and the human remains among main sources of his inspiration.
He currently resides in Vevey working on several long term projects.