Nikita Teryoshin

Nikita Teryoshin is a freelance photographer based in Berlin. His graduation project Hornless Heritage (2014-2017) explores the matrix-like world of modern dairy cows. His longest ongoing body of work, Nothing Personal (2016-present), examines the global arms trade. The project was awarded the World Press Photo Award in 2020 and Photo Book of the Year in Spain in 2024, and has been widely exhibited and published.

His clients include ZEIT, Stern, Der Spiegel, The New Yorker, The New York Times, GQ, Bloomberg, SZ-Magazin, and Le Monde. Since 2020, he has also been running his own small publishing house, pupupublishing. Teryoshin describes his genres as street, documentary, and everyday horror, and is a member of the photography collective Burn My Eye.