ABOUT THE EXHIBITION
The exhibition of the renowned photographer Oleg Klimov combines two of the author's themes: war and a project about life on the shore.
"The shore of a river or sea is a boundary, and even if the shoreline changes, it is always visible. The boundary between peaceful life and war, however, can be imperceptible, because it often runs through a person, changing them from the inside."
"For me, it's always more important to reconcile myself between what I have imagined, what I have read about, what I have seen in pictures before shooting, and what actually happened in reality during the work."
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Oleg Klimov was born in 1964 in Tomsk. He studied at Kazan University, specialty - astrophysicist. Since 1989, he has been a photographer for the newspaper "Evening Kazan". From 1991 to 2004, he was a photographer for the NRC-Handelsblad newspaper (Netherlands). He has also worked for the following magazines: Ogonyok, Itogi, Time, Elsevier, Stern, Le Monde, Izvestia, Komsomolskaya Pravda, Het Parool, The Times, The Independent, The Washington Post, news agencies France Presse, Sygma, and others.
Co-founder of the Liberty.SU documentary photography support fund.
Author and participant of the photographic expedition “From White to Black Sea” (2013 - 2014).
Repeatedly visited the "hot spots" of the former Soviet Union (Abkhazia, Chechnya, Tajikistan), Eastern European countries (Bosnia, Kosovo) and Central Asia (Iraq) to cover regional conflicts.
Personal exhibitions were held in Amsterdam (1996, 2002, 2004), Brussels (2004) and Nizhny Novgorod (2002). A personal retrospective exhibition on armed conflicts in the former USSR, "Just War", was shown in Moscow, Kazan, Ulyanovsk, Petrozavodsk and other cities of Russia. Participant of collective exhibitions in Naarden, Berlin and New York.
In 2004, he published a book of photographs "Heritage of the Empire, My Doomed Motherland" - about the consequences of the collapse of the Soviet Union during the last 15 years, from 1989 to 2004 (published in the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany and France).
In 2022, Oleg Klimov published a book «Calamity Islands», about Sakhalin and the Kuril Islands, based on Anton Chekhov's book “Sakhalin Island”.