LONDON.- Michael Hoppen Gallery presents a unique selection of rarely viewed Russian photographs: Boris Savelev was born in the Ukraine in 1948 and moved to Moscow in 1966. He is a graduate of the Institute of Aeronautics and joined the Moscow photography club Novator in 1970. He became a full time photographer since 1982and has had numerous exhibitions worldwide. He is one of the best-knownphotographers working in Russia today. Savelev’s work is about light and form-not people, but his images retain a peculiarly Russian sensibility. Nikolay Bakharev was born in 1946 in Mikhailovka, in the Russian region of Altai. Aged 4, he was placed in an orphanage after both his parentsdied, where he remained until he was 16. After a period working as a mechanic in a metallurgy plant, he began his career as a photographer. His workbridges a gap between documentary, eroticism and socialcommentary. Although intimate, it woul