Refat Mamutov was born in Uzbekistan in 1966. He graduated from the Pedagogical University with a degree in teacher of fine arts and drawing in Nizhny Tagil (Russia) in 1990.
He currently teaches fine arts and photography at this university. Since 2001, Refat has been a member of the Professional Union of Artists of Russia. He is also a scholarship holder of the Ministry of Culture of the Sverdlovsk region. Since 2012, Refat has been actively engaged in artistic photography (he mastered the art of photography on his own). In 2015, he took part in an international photo contest for the first time. Since then, Refat annually participates in numerous photo contests around the world, in many of them he has won prizes and honorable mentions by the jury of competitions. His works were awarded prizes at the International Photography Awards in 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2023; PX3 Prix De La Photography Paris in 2020; Moscow International Foto Awards in 2015 and 2017; Neutral Density Photography Awards in 2015, 2016 and 2017; Monochrome Photography Awards in 2015 and 2018.
The main creative credo of the Refat:
"Form as an aesthetic category is the object of my creativity. The form can be alive and not alive, natural and artificial. In all its conditions and manifestations, it attracts me as an artist. The minimalist style is most often characteristic of my work.
For me, minimalism is a way of bringing clarity. I work in such a way as to eliminate distraction from unimportant details, focusing the viewer's attention on the purest elements of photography: shape, light, texture and the way these components are combined."
At the same time, Refat is a multi genre artist. He is interested in trying himself in various genres of photography, experimenting and finding ways to implement search results in his creative projects.
In his photo projects, Refat often addresses the social and psychological problems of modern man and society.
