Bornin 1989 in Moscow, Russia. Lives and works in Moscow. In 2014, Danila Tkachenko graduated from the Rodchenko Moscow School of Photography and Multimedia, department of documentary photography (supervisor Valeriy Nistratov). In the same year, he won the World Press Photo 2014 competition with the project Escape, which he worked on for three years.
In March 2015, he finished the project "Restricted Areas," which has already received several international awards, including the European Publishers Award for Photography, Burn Magazine grant, and he was one of the Dutch magazine Foam Talents. The series was published in magazines like BBC Culture, The Guardian, IMA Magazine, GUP Magazine, the British Journal of Photography. At the moment, Danila Tkachenko is working on two projects which are being shot over a large part of Russian territory and several neighboring countries.