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51 image of Russian corruption
"Photo 51: Is corruption part of the genetic code of Russia?" This is the name of the 287 Spring Street Gallery on Manhattan, the exhibition of photographer Mikhail Friedman, who traveled Russia last year with his camera, configured to identify hidden signs of corruption in the country's daily life. “I did not want to take off scandalous personalities,” says Friedman, “so that the viewer does not have the impression that he is here, but here I am a corrupt official, but I don’t. I saw my task in another: to give the viewer to feel how corruption was eaten into the fabric of everyday existence and he himself is a small, but subject.” One spiral of the corruption code of Russia, according to the author, form relations between the state and man, the second - relations between people.
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0:00 0:03:45 Download the media filePhotos - with a total of 51 - are posted without a framework. “The frames would only divide the elements of the exposition,” Friedman is sure. And ideally, he needs a common panorama, without partitions to present the subject being studied as a whole, organizing pictures in a certain semantic sequence and preferably in the form of interweaving chains, like a DNA molecule.
"One of the visitors to the site of the Institute of Modern Russia, led by Pavel Khodorkovsky, the sponsor of my exhibition, left the following record:" What are you all distributed about corruption? I never came across corruption, we don’t have it in Russia. ”This statement is only confirmed by the thought of Mikhail Friedman that the Russians got used to corruption so much that they stopped noticing it. It’s not to see the face to face. The big is seen at a distance covered by a photo lens.
