Exhibitions
Everyday life in Moscow. 1962 - 2002 - Mikhail Dashevsky
- When:
- 08.06.2011 - 17.07.2011
- Where:
- Saint-Petersburg
- Category:
- Exhibitions
Personal exhibition of well known Moscow photographer in ROSPHOTO Yard Building exhibition hall.
Exhibition of well known Moscow photographer Mikhail Dashevsky opens in ROSPHOTO’s Yard Building exhibition hall. Mikhail Dashevsky was born in 1935 in Moscow. In 1953 he entered Hydrotechnical Faculty of Moscow Engineering and Construction Institute which he graduated from in 1958. He worked for a short time at Stalingrad and Bratskaya hydroelectric stations construction sites, further for forty years in Moscow at a construction research institute. Mikhail Dashevsky has a Ph.D. in Technical Sciences, he specializes in vibration protection of buildings. «Such are my life and mindset, mixture of rebellion and technique, which is not unimportant for art photography «about people». Dashevsky dedicated his whole life to photography: having started as photographer in early 1960s, in 1969 he became member of Novator, the famous Moscow photographers club.
Mikhail Dashevsky is a documentary photographer but he positions himself as art photographer. His works belong to minor form, usually making single images, sometimes with series, and creating each time poetically complex image. «I think that an event can not stay with the viewer for long. Witnessing something happen, having an emotional reaction to it, yes, but not watching again and again every day someone looking over his shoulder, someone falling, jumping, kissing, it's not interesting. The essence of genre photography, to me, is capturing the situation that makes emotional impact on the photographer, or the viewer, and makes them put the picture on their wall and thus let it into their lives.»
The exhibiton at ROSHOTO comprises photographs of both ordinary days and holidays and significant dates in Moscow history. These images capture the everyday life in Moscow, as seen by an insider sharing the city's life.
Mikhail Dashevsky's personal exhibitions:
2003 – Sunken Time. Photographs by Mikhail Dashevsky. 1962-1992. State Architecture Museum, Shusev Museum, Moscow
2004 - Sunken Time. Photographs by Mikhail Dashevsky. 1962-1992. Museum of Non-Conformism, St.-Petersburg
2006 - Sunken Time. Photographs by Mikhail Dashevsky. 1962-1992. Andrey Sakharov Center, Moscow
2007 - Sunken Time. Photographs by Mikhail Dashevsky. 1962-1992. International Photography Festival, Poznan, Poland.
2007 - Sunken Time. Photographs by Mikhail Dashevsky. 1962-1992. St.-Filaret Orthodox Christian Institute, Moscow
2008 - Sunken Time. Photographs by Mikhail Dashevsky. 1962-1992. Lithuanian Photographic Society, Fuji Film Gallery, Kaunas
2008 - Sunken Time. Photographs by Mikhail Dashevsky. 1962-1992. Fotovisa Festival, Krasnodar
2008 – As Seen by the Old House, Moscow Reflecting. Belyayevo Gallery (program of Photography Biennial), Moscow
2008 - Sunken Time. Photographs by Mikhail Dashevsky. 1962-1992. Lego Gallery, Kolomna
2008 - Sunken Time. Photographs by Mikhail Dashevsky. 1962-1992. Technical University, Tokio, Japan
Group exhibitions:
1969-1989 – annual exhibitions of Novator photographers club, Moscow
1998, 2000, 2004, 2006 – Photography Biennial, Moscow
2001 – Month of Photography International Festival in Bratislava, Slovakia
2002 – Silver Camera, Moscow
2008 – Photography of 1960-1970s (Photography in the USSR in 1960-1070s). Central House of Artists, Moscow
In 2004 M.Dashevsky’s book Sunken Time. 1962-1992 was awarded first prize in Contemporary Photogaphy Publication section of the International competition of photogrpahy books in Central and East Europe that was held in Bratislava, Slovakia.
Among the owners of Mikhail Dashevsky’s photographs are the collection of State Museum of Architecture – Shusev Museum (Moscow) as well as personal and company collections in Russia, France and Japan.
- Venue:
- Yard building exhibitional hall
- Street:
- Bol. Morskaya, 35
- City:
- Saint-Petersburg