This week the students of the photography faculty visited the project “RussPressPhoto” in its premises. The organization was founded in 2010 as a promotion and support tool for the Russian photo journalism school. One of its most famous projects is the exhibition “Russian Grand Prix”.

The director of the “RussPressPhoto” Vasilyi Proudnikov showed the students some photo albums, told about the work of the organization and ran a tour around the library boasting some really unique old pieces.

However, the most interesting was the laboratory of the analogue photography. That laboratory includes everything that would be necessary for making and printing really good photos.

There, in the laboratory, one can learn the history of the development of the photography. The owner of the laboratory showed the students a rather compact for its time English photo camera of the 19^th century (though huge for us, 21 century people). There were also “mobile” wooden cameras, used in the middle of the 20^th century and a well-known soviet photo camera called “Tourist”. There was a small camera no bigger than a pack of cigarettes and a real diary of a photographer of the 1930s.

Photography has walked a long way since its early days in the middle of 19^th century. Even now it is very important to know the history of photography to be able to create your own style in art.

dean of the photography faculty, IGUMO, prof. M. Vashchuk.  

Translated by E. Lazareva

11.03.2016
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