Dmitri Beliakov ©
Opening Reception: Saturday, May 12, 5 to 8pm
Photographs Do Not Bend Gallery Presents: From Moscow With Love, a group exhibition of seven photographers from Russia and Belarus selected by Burt Finger, several have not shown in the United States before.
Gallery director, Burt Finger, was invited to be one of a handful American reviewers to take part in Russia’s first International PhotographyPortfolio Review in Moscow. This event was organized by the Houston FotoFest Biennial staff and a team of independent Russian curators. About 40 curators, gallerists, book publishers and photo editors from many countries took part in this important initiative.
Works featured in the exhibit will be diverse; some with political undertone, some with pure design aspects and then some in between.
Exhibiting Photographers:
Dmitri Beliakov (b. 1970 Totma, Vologda, Russia)
Mikhail Dasherskij (b. 1935 Moscow, Russia)
Gregori Maiofis (b. 1970 St. Petersburg, Russia)
Ivan Mikhailov (b. 1981 Novocheboksarsk, Russia)
Valery Samarin (b. 1964 Moscow, Russia)
Vitaly Smirnov (b. 1969 St. Petersburg, Russia)
Eugene Zaluzhny (b. 1962, Belarus)