Igor Dryomin:
Exhibition "Photography - Lifestyle - Photography" by Alexander Tyagny-Ryadno

On Friday, February 12, in the Chekhov’s House on Malaya Dmitrovka in Moscow, the exhibition of Alexander Tyagny-Ryadno “Photography - Lifestyle - Photography” opened, dedicated to the author’s anniversary and to the release of his three-volume monograph of the same name.

Alexander Tyagny-Ryadno (b. 1956) began his professional career in the Soviet newspapers NTR, Sovetskaya Kultura, Izvestia, Sobesednik, and continued professional cooperation with many publications in Russia and abroad in post-perestroika times.

The author of more than a dozen copyrighted photo books and photo albums. Tyagny-Ryadno’s works are in museums and private collections in the USA, Great Britain, Germany, Bulgaria, Spain, Italy, Latvia, Poland, Russia, France.

The exhibition "Photography - Lifestyle - Photography" includes the best photographs of Tyagny-Row since the beginning of the 1980s. The exhibition is thematically divided into three parts, in accordance with the three volumes of the monograph.

The first part is genre black-and-white photography, reflecting the country’s life at the turn of the eras in the best traditions of Russian photographic symbolism.

Photos of the protagonists of the era continue the tradition of a classic psychological portrait: in this section of the exhibition portraits of Boris Yeltsin, Andrei Sakharov, Andrei Voznesensky and Sergei Bodrov are presented.

The third part of the exhibition is dedicated to the search for a modern language and style in color photography. Here are pictures taken by the author from numerous business trips in Russia and other countries.

The exhibition of Alexander Tyagny-Row “Photography - Lifestyle - Photography” in Chekhov’s House will last until March 20.