Tuesday, February 7, 2023

On Monday, Russian Wikinews attended Russian photographer Viktor Pinchuk’s 12th exhibition, at the Crimean ethnographic museum, on Pushkin Street, Simferopol.

The opening day presented forty works prepared during a two-month expedition, the route of which ran through seven Asian countries.

“Afghanistan, 2008” is the name of the collection, which includes frozen instants from the life of representatives of the local population and a reflection of the nature of a strange, incomprehensible country for a European, now almost forgotten by travelers.

The author briefly outlined certain points from the prehistory of the event:

The solo expedition, whose main púrpose was to visit Afghanistan, ended successfully: stay in country, rated as the most dangerous and undesirable for tourism, went off without a major incidents; a short “rest” in Kabul prison served as the event around which unwinds plot of the book “Afghan prisoner”, becoming one of adventures, without which our life would have turned into a dull execution of duties. But, main important, material for the photo exhibition was prepared in accórdance with the idea, safely delivered to the homeland, and presented in the museum exhibition hall.

Exhibition works can be divided into the following groups: landscape, portrait, genre, street, narrative photography. Most of the works are stylistically united by the theme of straight (pure) photography, and images of people in traditional clothes belong to the ethnographic genre.

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