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eng Automatic Translation

Yuri Vasiliev

1939

Photographer.

A key figure in the history of Belarusian photography. There is a lot of silence, calmness and humanism rare today in his photographs. His knowledge of the history of photography was fundamental, and his point of view was always clearly argued. His social and organizational activities deserved special attention, which is probably why his own creative searches sometimes receded into the background.

Lived and worked in Minsk.

Selected Artwork Series

Selected artworks

Associated institutions

Selected dates:

April 25, 1939

Born in the city of Petrokrepost (Shlisselburg in the Kirovsky district of the Leningrad region ). He spent his childhood traveling around his father's place of work.

1956

He entered the Penza Polytechnic Institute with a degree in Computer Science.

1961

He worked in Penza at a defense enterprise, then, according to an all-Union competition, he got into the Minsk Central Research Institute of Technical Equipment.

1965

Moved to Minsk . Since then he has lived and worked in Minsk.

1961-2004

Worked in engineering positions in the specialty.

1972-1976

He worked as the author and presenter of the TV series "Photopanorama" on BT (36 TV programs were released).

1971

He began to oversee numerous photo exhibitions, including foreign ones.

1965

Became a member of the Minsk photo club .

1977

He became an honorary member of the People's Photo Studio "Riga" (Riga).

1978-1999

Works as chairman and artistic director of the photo club "Minsk" .

For 5 years he was the caretaker of the museum-gallery "World of Photo" . With his participation, 80 photo exhibitions were organized. Organizer, participant and laureate of all-Union, inter-club and international photo exhibitions. Author of numerous publications on creative photography and Belarusian creative photography in domestic periodicals ("Mastatstva of Belarus", "Mastatstva"), consultant of the encyclopedic reference book "Photography" . Represented the Republic of Belarus and the photo club "Minsk" on the jury of more than 50 photo exhibitions.

1982

He became an honorary member of the "Rainbow" photo club (Mogilev).

1992

The title "Honored Worker of Culture of the Republic of Belarus" was awarded. Honorary member of the Belarusian Association of Photographers .

1993

Honorary member of the Union of Photographers of Lithuania .

1980-2013

Took part in international photo seminars in Nida, Lithuania.

January 18, 2018

Died in Minsk .

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Photographer about his practice:

"I belong to a generation that, in photography, appreciated the uniqueness and charm of the photographic image itself, obtained with light, lens and chemistry. And then the velvety surface of the silver grain and the matte barite base. I still develop films. I still wait for a miracle in red light of a dark room. This is a miracle - a photograph. But there is already another miracle - a figure. And what it allows you to do with an image delights me even more. "