He lives and works alternately in Moscow and Berlin. Studied at the German Bielefeld University and the Taylor School of Art by Temple University (USA), took part in many exhibition projects in the USA, Europe and Russia. Semin’s art exists in a special point of artistic reality. It functions as a focal point of high traditions of the pictorial portrait culture and at the same time is a multilayered manifest of novel media strategies. He has exhibited at the the Gallery of Classic Photography (Moscow), Gallery OT 301 (Amsterdam), Berlin Sony Centre (Berlin), MMOMA (Moscow), NCCA (Moscow) and others. Participated several times in the the Fashion and Style in Photography Festival, and Moscow Photobiennale.