He has a distinctive style and features nude models in urban settings around St Petersburg. His black and white photographs are disturbing and simultaneously reflect both life in the post-Soviet era and the theme of emerging sexual identity in adolescence. He has certainly courted controversy in the past as critics have remarked on what they see as inappropriate sexual depiction of his models. Mokhorev is at pains to explain that his photographs are artistic collaborations between model and photographer and that he merely captures what the models are trying to express.