ABOUT THE EXHIBITION
Emil Gataullin's exhibition combines two different series of the author: photographs of Moscow taken after February 24, 2022 and a series taken in Kolyma.
"These changes, sometimes blatant, like the letter "Z" on a skyscraper, sometimes subtle, but filled with an air of anxiety and alienation, connect these photos with a series previously shot in the Kolyma region. It is as if what one does not want to think about is seeping into the dressed-up capital with persistent insistence. Kolyma is not just a province. Kolyma is a place where the alienation of a person from others and life itself has manifested with destructive force."
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Emil Gataullin was born in 1972 in the city of Yoshkar-Ola in the Republic of Mari El. In 1991 he graduated from Kazan Art School, and then in 1999 graduated from the Surikov Moscow Art Institute (MGAHI), specializing in monumental painting. In 2003-2004 he studied under Alexander Lapin, one of Russia's leading photography theorists. In 2016, the Austrian publishing house Edition Lammerhuber published Emil Gataullin's book "Towards the Horizon".
Photographs have been published in GEO, LFI Magazine, The New York Times, Black+White Photography, FOTO Magazine, Schwarzweiss, Burn Magazine, Russky Reporter, Ogonyok, Such Matters and other magazines and online publications. Winner of several international photography competitions, including London Street Photography Festival (2020), Monovisions Photography Awards (2017), PhotoVisa (2015), The Alfred Fried Photography Award (2014), Best Photographer (2009). Solo exhibitions have been held in Russia, Germany, France, Italy, Austria, Greece, Lithuania, Hungary and Slovakia