MOSCOW.- The State Literary Museum opened the exhibition titled "The Golden Age of Russian Photography". Boris Ignatovich belonged to the Rodchenko and Lissitzky circle of artists. He was closely affiliated with professional photographers like Alpert and Shaikhet, Skurichin and Shagin, Langman and Sterzer, Fridljand and Tules, Markov and Chalip, Petrusov and Kovrigin as well as Gruntal and Chlebnikov. Boris Ignatovich was first a journalist and later became a photographer.

Boris Ignatovich wrote, "How I became a photographer. In 1926 I was working for the magazine ‘Trud’ and was responsible for the magazine's pictorial section of the supplement. During that time I became friends with a wonderful person the old and experienced photographer Stepan Antonovitch Krassin. He led me to buy the ‘blackened Nettel’ (9X12 cm) and the large metallic ‘Vogtland’ (10 x 15 cm) which, at the time, were professional cameras. In 1927 I started to work as a press photographer with this equipment at the editor's office of the magazine ‘Bednota’. At the time this was regarded a very interesting paper. Like any other magazine, it had an extensive section for letters, advice to farmers and others. They also employed their own photo correspondents from the Rjasan district. My job was to write the chronicle and to travel to the scene of events. With eagerness I set about my work to which I was still unaccustomed. The topics were extremely diverse, Volchovstroi (construction management of Volchovstroi hydroelectric power plant, 1918-1927), the first turbines and the Leningrad metal plant. the ‘Red Proletarian’, radio at church...".