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 every unperfect things is a little piece of herself.
And only when whe’ll understand and accept it, she’ll find her real way in the life.

This series is about the moment, it’s about what’s going on right now. About the uniqueness and value, the importance of each second. About the questions “Why?” and answers “because accidents are not accidental.”

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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 is growing in Russia, most of the population is not involved. It’s especially hard for young people and the younger generation of the country.
Welfare aspirations not always lead to success. Children are full of dreams and illusions about their future. Then they get older, try to get an education and to find a proper job in more populated places. But few succeed, and as they themselves admit, the older they become, the less faith they have in themselves and their forces.

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Fedor Telkov

Yekaterinburg

Project: Maris

Inhabitants of Mari villages Mari Karshis, Verhny Potam and Artimejkovo of Achitsky r thow Sverdlovsk area. As well as many villages, not managed to make transition from a collective farm to private, are on the verge of disappearance. Villages are based in the end of 19 centuries Maris were which aboriginals. In the south of the area, adjoining on the Bashkir republic there is a set of adjoining Tatar, Bashkir and Mari settlements. Traditions of the majority of them including are under the threat in connection with youth outflow in cities which in turn considers itself as “Russian”.

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Aleksander Sedelnikov

Saint-Petersburg

Tatyana Palyga

Saint-Petersburg

Project:  Colourless Days

I created this story while working in a sales department at a plant that produced soft drinks. I spent 8 hours 5 days a week at the office. My day began at 9 a.m. and ended at 6 p.m. Every day was the same.In this series I tried to depict colourless and absurd atmosphere inside the office, where people do things they doesn’t really care about or do nothing at all. All surroundings — furniture, office machines, things in working places, walls, even light, make the atmosphere more strange and depressing.

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Jana Romanova

Saint-Petersburg

People of the Land

Maaväci, “Peole of the Land”, one of the names of vaddjalain or vod’, the entire nationality which inhabited the land between lake Chudskoe and the Finnish Gulf. These people are one of the oldest indigenous peoples of Russia and right now there are only 15 old men and women live in two small villages in the district of Ust-Luga. During the World War II they were departured from their own land to Finland, after a year of staying in this
country, they were allowed to come back, but since that moment they had to live in far districts of Russia, instead of Ust-Luga. They came back to their villages only after the death of Stalin.

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The Foundation of informational and cultural programs “FotoDepartament“
with support of Committee for Culture of Saint-Petersburg
and BIKCIM Library of V.V. Maykovskiy /Centre of art and music on Nevsky pr., 20
presents:

The second season exhibition of 2010 of the program of supporting and development of young Russian photographers

YOUNG  PHOTOGRAPHY  2010 2/2.
Time

December 10‘2010 – January 10‘ 2011

Big exhibition Hall of BIKCIM Library of V.V. Maykovskiy/
Centre of Art and Music on Nevsky pr., 20

Official opening: Friday, December 10 at 18.00
Project is running under official support of  Committee for Culture of Saint-Petersburg

Official partner of exhibition: “Jarkiy mir” company / http://www.yarkiy.ru/
The whole exhibition will be printed in Photocenter «Yarkiy Mir Pro» / pr. Stacheck, 5

Exhibition participants:

Alena Zhandarova / Ivanovo / “Cornflower tea and melting chocolate” project
Sergey Kozmin / Moscow / “Common place” project
Tatyana Palyga / Saint-Petersburg / “Colourless days” project
Jana Romanova / Saint-Petersburg / “People of the Land” project
Kirill Savchenkov / Moscow / “Ttwenty years” project
Aleksander Sedelnikov / Saint-Petersburg / “Hackneyed phrases” project
Fedor Telkov / Nizhniy Tagil / “Maris” project
Irina Yulyeva / Saint-Petersburg / “Provincial hopes” project

The Young Russian Photography project 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. In this December will be a fourth season of project. After announcement about new admission we received more than 300 applications from Moscow, Saint-Petersburg, Yekaterinburg, Ivanovo, Krasnodar, Novosibirsk, Cheboksary, Nizhniy Tagil, Perm and other cities.
About 200 projects was admitted by organizers after previewing and presented for curators. And then curators chose 8 participants for exhibition Time.
In exhibition will be present art and documentary series of photography. This is collection of small personal photographer’s exhibitions answering together on the Time’s questions. Multimedia programs will not present in this seasons because we received few works.

Theme: Time

Every moment of the time is unique. Only when you look back you can understand what it was exactly. A photographer can save something if he had time to realized, analyzed and took a picture. The main constituent of second season’s projects is a time. Time like a projection of the past, present and even future. We’ll see how the young generation defines themselves, everyday life, society, relationships, cities and country in whole. Can young people feel the present time? Is it interesting for them? What they think about around the world? This is another view on time. View from the side of today.

Curators of winter season 2010 2/2:
Vanessa Winship, photographer, http://www.vanessawinship.com/projects.php, Great Britain
Ulrich Haas, curator of Backlight photography festival, Tampere / http://www.backlight.fi/ /,
Ekaterina Kondranina, curator, Moscow House of Photography, Moscow
Andrey Polikaniv, director of photography of the Russian Reporter Magazine, Moscow
Nadya Sherye, photography critic, curator, Saint-Petersburg.

Official website – http://www.youngphotography.ru/

About project:
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 lifes.

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.

More information and images for mass-media: press@fotodepartament.ru

Organizer of the project:
The Foundation of informational and cultural programs “FotoDepartament“
Saint-Petersburg, Nevsky pr., 32, tel/fax +7(812) 315‑5925
www.fotodepartament.ru
Coordinator of the project: Nadya Sheremetova/ info@youngphotography.ru

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