Ni Petrov (Russian, b. 1986) is an artist whose work examines the overlooked patterns of urban life. Working from candid photographic moments, he introduces digital manipulation — cut-outs, glitches, and pixel distortions — to transform familiar scenes into reflections on isolation and perception. He was born in Barnaul, Siberia, and has lived and worked in St. Petersburg, Russia, since 2012.
Petrov graduated from the Altai State Technical University's Architecture and Design Institute in 2010. His practice centered on photographs of crowds and city streets, shown in the series MAN_CITY in Vyborg in 2018 and St. Petersburg in 2019. He described the work as capturing the fleeting, unrepeatable movement of bodies within a city, “imprinted in the emptiness of the white sheet”. His photographs have appeared in publications including The Calvert Journal and Al-Tiba9, and in 2018 he received an International Photography Grant.
