Career
Rost’s photographic vision is closely related to the humanist tradition established by post-war photographers like Henri Cartier-Bresson, Leonard Freed, and Editor van der Elsken. He was selected by Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908–2005) for inclusion in his last exhibition, Les choix d’Henri Cartier-Bresson (Paris, 2003) after meeting him in Paris. A native of Kiev, Ukraine, Yuri Rost holds degrees from Leningrad State University and Kiev Institute of Physical Culture.
In 1967–1979, he worked as a special correspondent for the newspaper "Komsomolskaia Pravda".
From 1979, he worked as a columnist and photojournalist for the weekly periodical "Literaturnaia Gazeta". From 1994, he was the author of the television program "Rost’s Stable" ("Конюшня Юрия Роста").
From 1997, he was a columnist and photojournalist for "Moscow News". Currently, Yuri Rost serves on the Editorial Board and as a columnist for "Novaya Gazeta" in Moscow.