Vinzavod canceled the exhibition of Rob Hornstra

The Winzavod Center with the exhibition of The Sochi Project of the Dutch photographer Rob Hornstra, which was supposed to open on October 18.

The exhibition about the region of Sochi is part of the cultural program of the Year of Russia-Golland, it received financial support for the governments of Russia and the Netherlands. Rob Hornstra and writer Arnold Van Brugen have been working on The Sochi Project since 2009.

At the end of September, the Russian authorities refused Rob Hornstera in an entrance visa - he became the first journalist from the Netherlands since the Soviet era, who was deprived of accreditation in Russia.

The photographer spoke about the cancellation of the exhibition on his Facebook page. “I am very, very disappointed that our works, apparently, cannot be shown in Russia,” writes Hornstra.

He reports that Winzavod unilaterally stopped cooperation with the authors of the exposition. According to the Dutch photographer, the Russian side sabotage the exhibition, despite all the efforts made by the Embassy of the Netherlands and the organizers of the Year of the Russian-Holland.

Nevertheless, the exhibition will nevertheless take place, but outside of Russia. Hornstra invites her opening on October 24 at the Antwerp Museum of the FOMU photo, and on October 18 at 17:00, when an exhibition was opened in Moscow, Hornstra and Van Brugenes will hold a “parallel discovery” in the city theater of Amsterdam.