In thirty of the most successful in 2011 young photographers entered the Russians Oleg Dou, Tim Allen and Parchikov Zhandarova

Market pictures, perhaps the most prolific sector of the art market in this area, there is every place - and the young artist and collector. In 2011 at the auction were sold almost 14,000 copyright images, which together brought about $ 150 million. In recent years, leading to the auction photographs photographs of Andreas Gursky, Cindy Sherman and Richard Prince, but on the heels of this comes the youth is mastodon.

site Artprice published its rating of the 30 most successful young photographers up to 30 years in 2011. Places are based on the best auction result for the year for each of the young talents.

In thirty of the most-most photographers under 30 years 11 positions occupied by young authors from the Middle East, whose works have already move from the galleries on the secondary sales market.

top 30 auction results of photographers under the age of 30 years in 2011

№	artist	best auction result, USD
1	Sami Al-Turki (Sami Al- Turki)	22 000
2	JR	20 962
3	Oleg Dou	17,952
4	Dash Snow (Dash Snow)	17 000
5	Snow Maxwell (Maxwell Snow)	15 000
6	Marwa Adel (Marwa Adel)	12 000
7	Zhang Peng (Peng Zhang)	11 344
8	Tim Parchikov	7833
9	Lamya Gargash (Lamya Gargash)	7500
10	Harrach Mourad (Mourad Gharrach)	4772
11	Pravdin El (El Pradino)	4285
12	Abramson Ido (Ido Abramsohn)	4250
13	Sung Ahn Mi (Sun Mi Ahn)	4225
14	Layachhi Zineb (Zineb Layachi)	4175
15	Huraiz Meera (Meera Huraiz)	3800
16	Teresa Hubbard and Alexander Birhler (Teresa Hubbard & Alexander Birchler)	3462
17	Gezde Turkan (Gozde Turkkan)	3298
18	Genevieve Chua (Genevieve Chua)	3215
19	Othman Zina (Othman Zine)	2982
20	Laila Alaoui (Leila Alaoui)	2863
21	Desroches Benjamin (Benjamin Deroche)	2838
22	Matsedo Tatiana (Tatiana Macedo)	2764
23	Blue Disley (Sinem Disli)	2198
24	Babak Kazemi (Babak Kazemi)	2100
25	Makoto Murayama (Macoto Murayama)	2056
26	Hazem Mahdi (Hazem Mahdy )	2000
27	Osternik Lovis (Lovis Ostenrik)	1980
28	Ida Borg (Ida Borg)	1891
29	Prammer Agnes (Agnes Prammer)	1775
30	Alain Zhandarova	1502

dynamic Middle East market

In the case of promotion of young photographers from the Middle East are active branch of Christie's in Dubai, a division of Sotheby's in Doha and the Moroccan Company of Works & Works of Art (CMOOA). Photographer Sami Al-Turki (Sami Al-Turki), born in mixed marriages Arab and Irish, can be proud of his debut in the auction result 2011 - 22 thousand dollars. Large-size image Marhaba (120 x 200) more than three times higher than estimate at auction in Dubai. Such a good start for a young artist - a rarity, especially for the photographer. Like many of his young countrymen, Sami Al-Turki is given in his work with questions of national identity and interaction with other cultures.

Egyptian Marwa Adel (Marwa Adel) Born in 1984 reached a record auction of 12 thousand dollars after the sale of a triptych of photos at Christie's in Dubai. Eight of her photographs have gone under the hammer in Casablanca, Dubai, Doha. These are photos of nude, but quite chaste, and subjected to computer processing to be to the soul of the Egyptians to strict rules.

Very good results have shown three artists born in 1982: Lamia Gargash (Lamya Gargash), while selling their work only in Dubai; Murad Harrach (Mourad Gharrach), whose pictures are bought in the Casablanca and Paris, and Zineb Layachhi (Zineb Layachi), two of which left four thousand dollars more expensive at the auction CMOOA.

Turk Gezde Turkan (Gozde Turkkan) in its series of "Pay here "(2010) refers to the social, political and gender issues of Turkish society. One of the photos in this series in Paris, was bought for 2400 euros (3300 dollars).

quite a young artist from Dubai Huraiz Meyer (Meera Huraiz, 1989 p). ironic about the different patterns of eastern and western fashion. In his picture, "Madonna," the artist captured a mask, reminiscent of the famous corset Jean Paul Gaultier stitched for Madonna. In October last year, this picture was sold for 3800 dollars.

American Dynasty: Snow Brothers

great-grandson famous collectors John and Dominique de Menil (John and Dominique de Menil) Dash Snow (Dash Snow) lived a short and a dissolute life. He photographed his nocturnal adventures on the Polaroid, in order to be able to restore them in the memory of the morning. For fans of underground culture, these images have become coveted prey, especially after the death of Dash Snow at age 27 from an overdose. They were treated as rigid, embellished and not unformatted photographs about the culture of today's scum of society. Shortly before his death, Dash Snow, exhibited at the Royal Academy of Arts in London, the Whitney Biennial and at the Paris Palais de Tokyo. At the auction, Phillips black and white photo of Dash Snow, featuring the cemetery was bought for 17,000 dollars against the upper estimate 12,000.

younger brother Dash Maxwell Snow (Maxwell Snow) at auction on designer Brandinoli Muriel (Muriel Brandinoli), has successfully sold three of his photographs in a range from 10 to 15 thousand dollars - perhaps in the role played by the glory of the famous great-grandfather's great-grandmother and older brother, and dissolute.

Two French players: JR and Benjamin Desroches

in the glorious traditions of France, his photographic artists of the young should be mentioned under the name of the author JR . For him, the biggest art gallery in the world - is the street. In the streets all over the world (Africa, USA, Brazil, France, China, etc.), it creates enormous and often illegal street art works and photographs of them. Since then, many of these graffiti disappear, photos, JR are the only ones of their images. Collectors happy to buy them: in 2009 in London for one of the photos even paid 30,000 dollars. In 2011 the best score JR - 21 thousand dollars for his work "Milagros Vallejo Herrero, Cartagena" auction Phillips de Pury.

second Frenchman in the ranking of young photographers - Benjamin Desroches . His images are sold at auction with the French in 2009, which has always overcome the lower estimate.

Digital geniuses: Oleg Dou, and Peng Zhang

Since the 1990s, computer processing has become an integral part of photography. In this area, a well-succeeded Russian Oleg Oleg Dou and Chinese Peng Zhang . Repeated winner of various awards in photography and modern art auction Oleg Dou crossed the bar at 10 thousand dollars back in 2008 in Budapest and London. The best result achieved in 2011 by Oleg photowork a series of "nuns": over 11 thousand pounds it bought at Phillips de Pury April 15.

Peng Chang became famous for his photographs on a computer that converted the four girls. The extraordinary melancholy and hopelessness in the eyes of a child helped him to create works in which innocence and violence go hand in hand. Zhang Peng Pictures big sizes now go under the hammer in the range of 5 to 15 thousand dollars.

Rossiyanka Zhandarova Allen was born in 1988 - the last and youngest member ratings photographers under 30. In the picture, "My Way" a series of "Tea & Cornflower melting chocolate," the artist photographed herself in the middle of the classroom to the splits in the yellow skating. Work bought at auction in Vienna in 1500 dollars.

Prepared by Mary Onuchina, AI

Sources : artprice.com , artinvestment.ru