Look Me In the Eyes: Russian Photographic Portraits

I’m a little late on this one, but I’ve found that online images don’t fade. Sometimes they just go away, but they never fade.

At lensculture.com, Liza Fetissova curates the portraits of 5 Russian photographers: Evgeny Mokhorev, Oleg DOU, Marina Lapina, and Margo Ovcherenko. The work of these photographers and others can be seen at the Russian Tea Room, a gallery in Paris. Liza is the director of that gallery.

“The photography exhibition ‘Regarde-moi dans les yeux’ (or ‘Look me in the eyes’), at the Russian Tea Room Gallery is an attempt to study the question of identity of Russian photography. Through the portraits of their comrades, the photographs exhibited here approach the issue of Russian photography like a magnifying glass, trying to answer two crucial mirroring questions: “What is a Russian portrait?” and “What does Russian photography truly look like?”

The article lives here. You can view more from these photographers at the Russian Tea Room site.