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Wander through the exhibition as if to catch his own reflection for a long life. Heroes and deeds, fashion and lifestyle, scenes, peeped the watchful eye of the photographer, sometimes comical, sometimes almost embarrassing, at times mesmerizing ethereal beauty – it’s all our country.

Here you can see the work of Robert Capa and Henri Cartier-Bresson, a founding member of photo Agency. Once they arrived in the Soviet Union with the writer John Steinbeck and filmed everything that clung to the view – spectacular Kremlin views, domestic scenes. Individual attention, the work of the Inge morath – wife of playwright Arthur Miller. Going to any country, she tried to learn her language. Probably because so expressive of her photos documenting Pasternak, Plisetskaya, poets of the sixties, nonconformist artists, the grandson of the writer Fyodor Dostoyevsky.

Western photojournalists tried to talk about the Soviet Union quite sympathetically. Eve Arnold was able to find interesting characters not only in the streets, but in the circus school, the registry office, shop… Gueorgui pinkhassov tried to capture dissidents, not favored by the regime – such as, for example, portrait of Nadezhda Mandelstam.

– to unearth a gold nugget, you need to sift a lot of sand, wrote Henri Cartier-Bresson. – Search frame – it’s always playing somewhere halfway between the pocket and stealing the tightrope.

the Exhibit convincingly illustrates this paradox. Shots that might seem insignificant and even ridiculous, today, years later, I breathe a nostalgic warmth. Even mocking, cartoon series “Homo soveticus” Belgian Carl de Keyser, who sought everywhere the grotesque situation is only a kind smile.

In the new century travelers taking pictures of our country in new ways. Someone concerned with the search for the geezer: Norwegian Jonas Bendiksen, for example, found some cultists in the taiga. At the same time managed to build frames of the Siberian nature and human persons, what they read the motives of Bruegel.

the Final room – a project of Nanna Hitman “Just wait and watch” dedicated to doctors 52-th Moscow hospital. Doctors in masks – the heroes of our days without retouching, without pathos.

Curator, photo-historian Nina Gomiashvili says: the exhibition presents 250 works by 39 authors. Viewers can participate in online meetings with the authors, Thomas Dvorak, Georgy Pinkhassov, Bruno Barbie, Stuart Franklin… Part of the exhibition was the library with free access to the books and albums dedicated to travel foreign photographers in Russia.

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Jennifer Alvarez is an investigative journalist and is a correspondent for European Union. She is based in Zurich in Switzerland and her field of work include covering human rights violations which take place in the various countries in and outside Europe. She also reports about the political situation in European Union. She has worked with some reputed companies in Europe and is currently contributing to USA News as a freelance journalist. As someone who has a Masters’ degree in Human Rights she also delivers lectures on Intercultural Management to students of Human Rights. She is also an authority on the Arab world politics and their diversity.