The exhibition you see here is timed to February 14, the "Day of All Lovers". But this time we would like to talk to our viewers not about romantic enthusiastic love of young lovers exchanging "valentines", but about Love as an all-encompassing feeling. It is a powerful and strong experience that captures the entire nature, for the briefest of moments making us experience the feeling of true happiness.
"There's only a moment - hold on to it.
There is only a moment between the past and the future.
It is he who is called life."
These lines of the poet Leonid Derbenev illustrate very precisely, in a poetic manner, the words of the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche: "My formula for the greatness of man is amor fati:
"To want nothing else, neither ahead nor behind, nor forever. Not only to endure necessity, but not to hide it...but to love it. A resolute, enthusiastic acceptance of everything that happens in life, with a forceful and comprehensive gratitude bordering on a kind of rapturous disposition."
Photographers know exactly about this "moment of happiness" - because it cannot be played or simulated on camera, it can only be experienced and, if you are lucky, seen and captured. A moment that takes you out of the veil of everyday life and prose. A very subtle and very strong impression of the truth of life!
How many times we have witnessed this amazing majesty of Beauty, Tranquility, Happiness, Joy and Love in life itself. We invite you, our viewers, to immerse yourselves in the world we are lucky enough to see and bring to you: piercing reporter sketches by Vlad Bagno, Alexey Dovgan, Georgy Bezborodov, Egor Bashmakov, Olga Kunitskaya, the most sincere moments in staged and reportage photography by Nina Kiseleva, Lisa Eshva, Olga Grishko, Alexander Strelchuk, Alisa Thixton, Yuri Zakharov, Ekaterina Stepanova, Elena Pelevina and Alisa Calypso, who is loved by all of us and is so "human", emotional animalistic photography by Yulia Sundukova, Sergey Plakhov, Ivan Grachev, Anna Mandrikyan and Irina Petrova, philosophical and conceptual photography by Tatiana Shkondina, Anton Timoshevsky and Vladimir Shchukin, extremely accurately illustrating the concept of amor fati by Anton Kuzmin and elegant black and white graphics by photographer Vyacheslav Kogan.
The authors offer an unusual view on the concept of Love - because Love is a voluminous concept that cannot be limited. Love for children, for loved ones, for oneself, for the Motherland, for friends, for one's family - all this is also Love. Love manifested in the fullness of Life...
The most romantic educational program of the year on this day will be organized by the Darwin Museum together with the National Association of Photo Industry Professionals. The main theme will be photography.