Press release: Soviet Times: Russian Times, 1917-2010
Circulated 15 January 2010
Images from the best photographers of the Soviet Union and modern Russia will open at the new TopFoto Gallery in Edenbridge on 4 February 2010.
The exhibition, curated by RIA Novosti, Russia’s leading press service, has already shown to great acclaim at London’s Guildhall and the Imperial War Museum North.
The show includes World Press Award winners, such as Vladimir Vyatkin, whose image of soldiers in Chechnya won the Gold Medal in 2002.
From the turmoil of the Russian Revolution, the exhibition then charts the tremendous changes Russia has undergone within the last 100 years, from the industrialisation of the 1930s, through WWII and the Cold War, the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 and developments since.
Russia’s finest photographers are represented.
Max Alpert, for example, is one of the greatest photographers of the 20th Century. His image of Commander Alexei Yeremenko, urging on his men in 1942 shortly before his death, is justly famous. To capture this silent, devastating, shot Alpert was right up front. You can hear the bullets.
These are simply the best photographers working at the height of their skill.
Exhibition 04/02/10–31/03/10. Gifts/Print shop. Free entry 09.30-5pm Mon-Sat. T: 01732 863 939. |
