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.
You can download the relevant PDF catalogue here.
