History and culture: The exhibition “The Dutch and Flemish photographers about Russia” opened in Nizhniy Novgorod

July 4, in the Russian Museum of Photography in Nizhny Novgorod opened the exhibition “The Dutch and Flemish photographers of Russia”.

The exhibition “The Dutch and Flemish photographers of Russia” - is the first part of a larger project “Foreign photographers of Russia”. The exhibition includes works by 10 authors, who for the past 20 years were filming the documentary about the history of Russia.

The purpose of the project is to show the Russian reality through the eyes of leading international documentary photographers.

The exhibition will be presented in many cities of Russia: Moscow, Nizhny Novgorod, Yekaterinburg, Perm, Cheboksary, Samara, Tyumen, Uglich, Saint-Petersburg, Novosibirsk, and Krasnoyarsk and eventually will go to the Netherlands.

This project could not have taken place if not for the hot enthusiasm of the participants - to show their work in Russia, and it is precisely in the context of a collective exhibition, which opens up new horizons and possibilities for interpretation. They are united by one thing - almost fanatical interest in Russia, not the gingerbread-nested doll, but the real, harsh and strange country, they by all means wanted to know, and the photograph was a means for them along the way.

The exhibition runs from July 4 to July 23, 2013.