The Odd City M

The new exhibition of the famous Russian photographer Zalman Shklyar "Out of town M" will be dedicated to only one city - Moscow. As always, the author remains true to the genre of street photography, which he reveals in the most unexpected moments in people’s lives. The exhibited works created by the author over the past few years combine three parts: Yard Soccer, Kazan Station, and Geometry and Poetics.

The combination of dynamic scenes and static, pronounced geometry and expressiveness, drama and jokes… The author seems to be trying to combine incongruous elements in one frame and, obviously, he succeeds.

Zalman Shklyar is trying to open the viewer’s eyes to a real world in a low key of contrasts, which is hidden by a curtain of street fuss. Unusual shapes of figures of people, buildings, close angles, high and low points of shooting…

You can list the professional techniques of this photographer for a long time, but one thing is clear - behind all this artistic formality lies a deep content. And this content is the unique life moments in which the main characters of the personnel are located - people, their psychological portrait.

And the photographer himself confirmed this in an interview for Radio Liberty when he said: “I have the main character of black and white photography - not even the person himself, but the psychotype of the person.”

The exhibits of Zalman Shklar’s exhibition “Out of City M” will be interesting not only to admirers of street photography, but also to art lovers, as they represent the work of a real artist of photography.