In the Moscow Gallery "Victory" an exhibition of the famous photographer Lyali Kuznetsova "Gypsies" has not been opened. The people do not like when they are photographed, it is not easy to deserve their trust. The artist was persistent, and the gypsies took her for her. This allowed her to make a series of unique photographs known throughout the world
Lyalya Kuznetsova was born in 1946 in Uralsk (Kazakhstan). She studied at the Kazan State Aviation Institute and worked as an aviation engineer before she took up a photograph in the late 70s. In 1978, she worked as a photographer in the Kazan State Museum of Arts, in 1979 she was admitted to the Union of Lithuanian photo artists. From 1980 to 1982, Kuznetsov was a reporter for the newspaper "Evening Kazan". Now - a free artist. Her work has been repeatedly exhibited in Europe and the United States, including the Korcoran gallery in Washington. In 1997, Kuznetsova was awarded the Mother Jones Leica Medal of Excellence and the Grand Prix of photos in Paris. Her exhibitions visited almost all capitals of the world.
