Exhibition: A Sentimental Journey of Soviet Photographer Nikolai Drachinsky to China, 1958–1959
Presented as part of the 16th Pingyao International Photography Festival (PIP), China
September 20–29, 2017

Exhibition: Multicontours of Moscow. The Photography of Nikolai Drachinsky
Museum of Moscow
August 17 – September 30, 2018

Exhibition: The Multicontours of Nikolai Drachinsky
Presented as part of the 10th International PhotoVisa Photography Festival, Krasnodar Krai
F.A. Kovalenko Krasnodar Regional Art Museum
October 15 – November 12, 2018

Exhibition: The Multicontours of Nikolai Drachinsky
Presented as part of the 2nd Festival of Contemporary Russian Photography “VMESTE” (“Together”), Novosibirsk
June 12 – September 2, 2019

Curators: Alla Vakhromeeva; Irina Chmyreva, PhD. Exhibition organizers: Russian Cultural Center Our Texas, Houston, USA; PhotoVisa International Biennale of Photography, Krasnodar, Russia. The show is a part of the International Biennale FotoFest 2020 in Houston. This exhibition presents photographs taken in Sudan by Soviet photojournalist Nikolay Drachinsky (1917-1978) for the magazine Ogonyok in 1957. Each issue of that year’s magazine featured Drachinsky’s travelogue illustrated with his photographs, with one of magazine cover displaying a fragment of an expressive portrait of a Nilot bowing. This exhibition comprises 31 contemporary prints made from Drachinsky’s original negatives, which were preserved, along with his entire photographic and epistolary archive, by Alla Vakhromeeva, the artist’s widow, famous in her own right as a Moscow photo editor and curator of photographic exhibitions of the 1970-1990s. Nikolay Drachinsky (1917-1978) was a print journalist, photojournalist, and, later, a curator of international exhibitions of Soviet photography.

You can download the relevant PDF catalogue here.

On August 30, Alla Vakhromeeva, the wife of Nikolai Drachinsky and the keeper of his archive, passed away.

In an article on Photographer.ru, Irina Chmyreva reflects on Alla’s life with Nikolai Drachinsky and her deep love for photography.