Irina Popova

Irina Popova (born 1986) is a Russian / Dutch documentary photographer.

Early life and education Popova was born in Tver, Russia. She has studied and worked as a photographer since age 16. She is a graduate of the Tver State University School of Journalism, and studied photography at FotoDepartament in St. Petersburg in 2007. Between 2008 and 2010, she studied documentary photography and mixed media at the Rodchenko Moscow School of Photography and Multimedia.

Life and work In 2008, on a student photography assignment, she moved in for two weeks with a young family in a tiny apartment in St Petersburg. "Friends moved freely in and out of the space, music was played, people partied with alcohol and drugs"—all with a young child present.

The Incomplete Princess Book (2016) is "a compilation of 8000 images of other Irina Popovas registered on the social network Vkontakte".

Publications Cuba is Near. Mendeleevo: BArt, 2010. Narocco. Amsterdam: Rare Bird, 2011. Native Soil. Amsterdam: Rare Bird, 2012. Another Family. Amsterdam: Schilt; Moscow: Treemedia, 2013. . Photographs by Popova as well as her journal and various written ephemera. Edition of 100 copies. Second edition. Amsterdam: Dostoevsky, 2017. . Edition of 400 English and 100 Russian copies. "The second version has a different design, double-folded "secret" pages, and other features. The photos are only 75% the same with previous edition, and the texts are re-vised and re-edited." Bijlmer: Atlas of People and Birds. 2014. Welcome To LTP. Amsterdam: Dostoevsky. 2015. Edition of 600 copies. Iconic Drawings. Amsterdam: Dostoevsky. 2015. Edition of 80 copies. The Incomplete Princess Book. Amsterdam: Dostoevsky, 2016. . Edition of 300 copies. The First Beauty Pageant. 2018. Edition of 50 copies. Lost in Istanbul. 2019. Edition of 20 copies.