Boris Mikhailov

Boris Andreyevich Mikhailov (born 25 August 1938) is a Ukrainian photographer.

Mikhailov had his first exhibition at the end of the 1960s. After the KGB found nude pictures of his wife he was laid off his job as an engineer and started to work full-time as a photographer. From 1968 to 1975 he shot several series documenting everyday scenes, the best known of them being the Red series.

He has been awarded the Hasselblad Award and the Citibank Private Bank Photography Prize.