'Towards the Horizon' in Edition Lammerhuber, shows Russian village life in poetic black & white photos by Emil Gataullin
Russian photographer Emil Gataullin, widely unknown in the West, is a master of poetic black & white photography, a kind of photography reminiscent of Henri Cartier-Bresson. His topic: Russian village life far away from the big decisions and sensations. Gataullin’s work is at the same time documentary and photographic poem, it dances on the thin line between deliberate sparseness and restraint and affectionate composition. Gataullin’s pictures neither glorify nor denigrate. They are a declaration of love for a Russia beyond Moscow.
BIS ZUM HORIZONT / TOWARDS THE HORIZON unveils a photographic hidden treasure. The photos won the Alfred Fried Photography Award in 2014. This magic world of Russian village life is accompanied by a poetic text by Peter-Matthias Gaede, GEO Editor-in-Chief of 20 years.
EMIL GATAULLIN is a Russian monumental and fresco painter. He studied at the V. Surikov Moscow State Academy Art Institute. Shortly after the turn of the millennium, he began to take an interest in photography, and found in photography theorist Alexander Lapin his teacher and mentor. His love is the black and white photography with increasingly frequent trips to color. Emil Gataullin is 44 years old and lives in Korolyov near Moscow.
PETER-MATTHIAS GAEDE was for ten years a reporter for the magazine GEO, where he worked as Chief Editor from 1994 to 2014. At edition Lammerhuber, he last wrote the text for Volker Hinz 'In Love with Photography. Gaede has traveled Russia from the Gulag region of the Siberian Magadan and has also seen Gataullin's work as a juror of the Alfred Fried Photography Award.
BIS ZUM HORIZONT / TOWARDS THE HORIZON
Emil Gataullin, Peter-Matthias Gaede 17 x 23.5 cm
, 256 pages, 129 photos
, German, English, Russian
, bound in linen, French Fold jacket, ISBN 978-3-903101-16-6
€ 49.90
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EXHIBITION BIS ZUM HORIZONT by Emil Gataullin
10 November – 15 January 2017, GAF – Gallery for Photography in Hannover
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