MOSCOW,RUSSIA - EQS - 7 March 2019 - FromFebruary 11 to March 4, a photo exhibition dedicated to modern Moscow was heldin Zaryadye Park. It was the first stage of a collaboration projects cycle ofthe Moscow Committee for Tourism and Magnum Photos agency. All urban portraitsand landscapes presented in the exposition were created live via Magnum LiveLab/19 experimental laboratory. Many leading world photographers, such asThomas Dworzak from Germany, Alex Majoli from the USA, and Newsha Tavakolianfrom Iran, took part in the exhibition. In the summer, the second Magnumlaboratory to extend winter collection opens its doors.

«Magnum Photoswinter exhibition has become a major international culture project. Itrepresents an insight in the life of our city from the outside with someunorthodox angles and accents, as well as cliché reinterpretation and creatinga new image of Moscow. The upcoming summer exhibition is going to become a logicalextension of the winter cycle and complement the photo chronicle of our modernmegapolis with new urban themes and human stories» -- said Nina Gomiashvili -- curator of the project.

The expositionopening was preceded by creative activities of the Magnum Live Lab / 19experimental laboratory, where a team of photographers took photos of differentparts of the city on a daily basis, gradually filling the exhibition space withtheir pictures. At the end, 69 best photos were selected among hundredsand they were presented to the visitors of the Dome pavilion in Zaryadye Park.In general, more than 25 000 persons visited the exhibition during 22days of work.

«I've alwayswanted to visit Russia, and I agreed to become a part of the Magnum Live Lab /19 project without any hesitation. Creating an exhibition about modern Moscowis a very sensitive task. Over a two-week period, our team took severalthousand photos, trying to understand the city and its inhabitants, to captureits rhythm and atmosphere» м -- said NewshaTavakolian -- photographer of Magnum Photos international photography agency.

Each of thephotographers approached the exhibition in his or her own manner. For ThomasDworzak, central point was «Walking the Streets of Moscow» (1963, USSR,Mosfilm) film. His series of photos are closely linked to the key locationsfrom the film and represent a kind of a photo remake called «Walking theStreets of Moscow. Winter edition».

As an epigraph tohis project Alex Majoli choose the following quote of an Italian novelist anddramatist Luigi Pirandello «Right you are if you think so». As for thename of the series, Russian scenes, it reflects Alex's impressions oftheatrical drama from everyday urban scenes

Newsha Tavakolianpaid attention to the youth of modern Moscow and created a portrait series ofyoung people of various professions in their home interiors. Urban scenes ofthe city were another subject of Newsha's attention, reflecting the environmentwhere these young people live.

Thesite of the project: https://magnummoscow.com

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