Project “Young photography” is a unique program of long-term cooperation of FotoDepartament Foundation with young Russian photographers for who consider photography non-separate part of their lives.
Since 2007 FotoDepartament has been holding a program of supporting and development of young Russian photographers. The program includes exhibitions of “Proper Noun” project, in which young photographers are presented by famous curators. Since 2009 the program exists in format of opened on-line project with international curators taking part and two big exhibitions are shown in a year as a result of two seasons of curator‘s choice. During this time exhibitions of young photographers were in Saint Petersburg, Moscow, Krasnodar, Ekaterinburg and Krasnoyarsk.
In the end of 2012 the project “Young photography” is celebrating its 5th anniversary. The important result of our 5-years work was a big exhibition of Russian contemporary photography “Territories of Desire” during the International photo festival Backlight 2011. There will be 22 Russians, most of them were participants of the exhibitions of the project ‘Young photography’. An exhibition “Place of dream” opens in September-November, 2011 in the Tampere Art Museum in Finland. Curators of an exhibition are Ulrich Haas-Pursiainen (Backlight) and Nadya Sheremetova (FotoDepartament).
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Projects: Alena Zhandarova. Cornflower tea and concealing chocolate
Alena Zhandarova Ivanovo Project: Cornflower tea and concealing chocolate It’s a story about one girl, her attitude to life, time and space around. Every photo have a different state, which in the end of the story create a new full picture. It’s like a map, which help her not to forget, that every fear and […]
Projects: Irina Yulieva. Russian youth
Irina Yulieva Saint-Petersburg Project: Russian youth 60 percent of Russian population resides in small towns, urban settlements and villages. The conditions are very different from those of the big cities — unemployment, lack of education, greater difficulties in social and communal area. All of that makes people to move into bigger cities. While urbanization process […]
Projects: Sergey Kozmin. Common place
Sergey Kozmin Moscow Project: Common place After the 1917 Revolution a housing crisis began in St Petersburg. The Communist Party’s decision was to requisition large parts of the upper class people’s living space for new working class tenants. This new form of housing became known as “communal apartments” or “kommunalka” in Russian. Usually the people […]
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