Since 2007 FotoDepartament Foundation 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.
Organizers
The Foundation of informational and cultural programs “FotoDepartament”
BIKCIM Library of V.V. Maykovskogo/Centre of art and music on Nevsky, 20
Official support of the project: Committee for Culture of Saint-Petersburg
Exhibition place: BIKCIM Library of V.V. Mayakovskogo /Saint-Petersburg, Nevsky, 20.
Website youngphotography.ru is an opened for young authors from all regions of the country mechanism of presenting their projects, series and photographs to curators. Through this website one can submit an application to take part in the project, and judging will be provided by group of curators with international photographers, curators and specialists taking part. There are two seasons of the project, and the result of each season is choosing 7–10 emerging photographers, whose personal projects will take part in final group exhibition in a Big Hall on Nevsky, 20.
In 2011 the project “Young photography” is celebrating its 5th anniversary. We hope, that most of you, who is always interested in Russian photography, could remember as small personal, as annual collective exhibitions organized by FotoDepartament.
During this time exhibitions of young photographers were in Saint Petersburg, Moscow, Krasnodar, Ekaterinburg and Krasnoyarsk.
From the very beginning the main goal of the project was to show photography as an art and as manifistation of authors point of view. We were always looking for photographers who are not depend on someone’s opinion or trends and has their own recognizable style. Thinking about every moment, we would like to see inner strenght of young generation, escaping through photography, to name it and show it other people. That is why our annual exhibitions are not the best of young photography, it’s a research of contemporary young photography and its authors.
The project “Young photography’ it’s not a competition or an award, it’s a long term collaboration of the found FotoDepartament and talanted Russian photographers.
FotoDepartament exhibits their works on Russian and international exhibitions and photo festivals, helps young photographers in finding financial support for their personal projects, to fill applications for international competitions and grants etc.
The first important result of our 5-years work is 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).
