Ignatovich, Boris Vsevolodovich (1899, Lutsk — 1979, Moscow), an outstanding master of Soviet photography, well-known photographer and photo artist. He took up journalism in 1918, in 1921 edited the Gornyak (Miner) newspaper in Moscow, in 1922-1925 lived in Petrograd (Leningrad), where he became interested in photography. After his return to Moscow (1926), he was one of the leaders of the Photo Reporters Association at the Press House. From 1927 on Ignatovich worked as a photo editor and photo correspondent of the Bednota (The Poor), collaborated with the Narpit, Prozhektor, Ogonyok, Sovetskoye Foto and SSSR na Stroike magazines, and was among the organizers and leaders (together with Rodchenko) of the Oktyabr Group.
In the 1930s he became enthusiastic about newsreels and made several documentaries, including the Segodnya (Today) story and a documentary about the Kukryniksy cartoonists. Simultaneously he headed the Vechernyaya Moskva newspaper illustrations department and within the framework of the Soyuz Foto agency contributed photographs to the Stroim, Nashi Dostizheniya and Stroitelstvo Moskvy magazines. He made photo series about Moscow’s Frezer plant and Parizhskaya Kommuna factory.
During the Great Patriotic War (1941-1945) he served as a photo correspondent for the Boyevoye Znamya newspaper of the 30th Army and documented the partisan movement behind the enemy lines.
After the war he collaborated with numerous magazines and publishers. Subsequently, one of the leaders of the Novator club and the author of photo portraits of the writers Kornei Chukovsky, Mikhail Zoshchenko and Boris Pasternak and other cultural figures.