The FACE: evolution of portrait in photography

The exhibition is dedicated to the evolution of portrait in contemporary art photography. The show embraces artworks of over 50 authors from 20 countries. Works by young artists are exhibited side by side with the photographs by famous artists including Laurence Gartel, one of the pioneers of digital art, Roger Ballen, Atta Kim, Almond Chu, Kimiko Yoshida. The exhibition also includes artworks by over 10 authors from Moscow, St.-Petersburg and other Russian cities. The FACE combines traditional images and conceptual interpretations of portrait genre in various photographic techniques. Shown together in one exhibition, these artworks comprise an ensemble that does not claim to reflect the whole mass of ideas realized in contemporary photography today, but sheds a light on the specifics and the place of portrait in contemporary art.

ROSPHOTO State Museum and Exhibition Centre for Photography

35 Bolshaya Morskaya, 191186 Saint-Petersburg

Admission: 100 RUB

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