Take a chance to listen to a Polish photographer Rafał Milach talking about his photographic project "7 rooms". He has been fascinated with Russia and Russian people for years. Milach spent six years with seven people in three Russian cities: Moscow, Yekaterinburg and Krasnoyarsk. The series "7 rooms" depict Russians in their thirties and their surroundings. The people are sort of clashed between post-soviet mentality and contemporary Russian attitude. They are anxious, but on the other hand strongly connected to their country. During the meeting in Instytut Sztuki Wyspa Rafał Milach will tell their stories and how he had worked on the photographs.
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Rafal Milach is a documentary photographer based in Warsaw, Poland. He graduated Academy of Fine Arts in Katowice, Poland and ITF in Opava, Czech Republic. For more than 10 years he has been working on transition issues in Russian speaking countries and CEE region. This work resulted with the book called 7 Rooms (Kehrer Verlag 2011) and such essays as The Grey (2002), Wunderland (2006) or Black Sea of Concrete (2009). Rafal’s photos were exhibited in MoCA Shanghai and are the part of collection of Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Art in Japan. They have been also presented within Photoespana, Look3, Rencontres Photogrphiques d’Arles. In 2007 Rafal took part in Joop Swart Masterclass run by World Press Photo Foundation. Within next 3 years he received stipends from Polish Ministry of Culture, European Cultural Foundaion and Visegrad Fund. His Pictures have been awarded in World Press Photo, Pictures of the Year International, Photography Book Now and New York Photo Festival Awards.
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The meeting will take place in Bookyard bookstore in Instytut Sztuki Wyspa on the 20th of January (Friday) at 5.30 pm.
text©Natalia Wiśniewska
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