Turar Kazangapov, born in 1987, in the Karaganda region, Kazakhstan, is currently working as a full-time photojournalist of the Tengrinews.kz information portal and the Vesti.kz sports site.
2004-2009 Karaganda State University named after E.A. Buketova
Faculty: Professional and artistic / Design
I have been photographing landscapes, interesting people, stories and recent few years I study documentary photography. In the course of the profession, I traveled to different CIS countries and beyond.
In the sphere of photography is for more than 15 years, my grandfather and father engaged in photographs as well.
2016 - Had training and master class with highly-regarded photographers of NOOR images agency noorimages.com supervisor - Yuri Kozyrev.
Took part in a seminar with photographers like Chief photographer Andrey Kamenev (National Geographic, Russia),
Ryan Bell and Darren Smith (National Geographic, USA). Personal photo exhibition on the Day of the First
President (Astana, 2015-2016); 2016 - Participation in the NATIONAL
REPRESENTATIVE photo exhibition; Since 2016, the founder and member of the
Photobar photo club in Astana 2014 - 2018 - took part in various photo expeditions and photo festivals in Kazakhstan,
Turkey, Russia, Uzbekistan. 2017 - Nominee of the National Award "Urker" for the best achievements in the field of print,
radio, online journalism 2018 - Grand Prix "Best Photo of the Year" in the national award "Urker" for the best achievements
in the field of print, radio, online journalism
SILK ROAD photo exhibition, Lianyungang (China) 2018
Personal photo exhibition “My Kazakhstan”, Louvre Square, Paris, 2019
2019 My Kazakhstan Personal photo exhibition, Washington, New York
(USA), 2019
My Kazakhstan Personal photo exhibition, Tokyo (Japan), 2019
Since 2020, he has signed a contract with the world agencies Reuters. He covered events in Kazakhstan such
as coronavirus, forest fires, floods in cities In 2022, he covered the Summer Olympic Games in Tokyo, Japan
In 2023, he covered the Winter Olympics in China.
In 2024, he worked the summer of the Olympics in Paris.
