Exhibition "B&W" (Black & White). Alexander Sorin

FotoLoft Gallery, together with the FOTODOC Documentary Photography Center, with the assistance of the Civic Assistance Committee, presents the B&W (Black & White) exhibition, a story about the fate of refugees and migrants from Africa.

The exhibition will show photographs and video interviews with Africans who came to Russia to seek asylum, study or work, with the victims of the attacks of nationalists, with those who have found their family here and are linking their future with Russia or want to quickly move to another country.

The B&W project explores the lives of migrants in Russia as a social and cultural phenomenon. The stories of African refugees are a symbol of forced migration and the problems of migrants in a foreign country. They are the most visible, the most different, as a rule, who have escaped from war, violence, hunger and disease, they are hardest to fit into a new life, they are carriers of a completely different culture and traditions. They are often the hardest. They stand out as black on white. The authors of the project want to make the stories of these people “visible” to the general public, to give the viewer the opportunity to look each of our heroes in the eyes and hear them, to get the experience of empathy and their own understanding.

We are deeply convinced that in the modern world, migration is an inevitable and, possibly, necessary process. Our country is no exception. Awareness of this, the fight against phobias and clichés that make you hate and fear “others” and “come in large numbers” is important not only for visitors, but, above all, for Russian citizens.

ABOUT THE EXHIBITION:

The goal of the exhibition is to acquaint viewers with the life and stories of refugees and illegal migrants, make them try on their own problems, see the clandestine “illegal” living people, their hopes, fear, joy and disappointment. We are not going to idealize anyone. Any migrants, including blacks, just people, good and bad, good and evil.

Photos and video interviews with subtitles in Russian will allow you to achieve the effect of direct speech, a migrant’s appeal directly to the viewer without an intermediary. All this should enhance the effect of the impact on the viewer, as well as maximally individualize each of the stories of the characters of the plots.

Venue:

Gallery FotoLoft.
Opening hours: 12.00-21.00
105120 Moscow, 4th Syromyatnichesky per., D. 1/8 p. 6
(Center for Contemporary Art "Winery")

Web: www.fotoloft.ru