The “Panorama” Gallery (22nd floor) held the opening of the “Krasnoborski krai” photo exhibition on 31 January. The exhibition is the outcome of the Krasnoborsk School of Photography's efforts in the tourist complex "Krasny Bor" between August 21 and 30, 2022.
The exhibition introduces the audience to the largest national landscape reserve in Belarus "Krasny Bor", its landscapes, forest ecosystems, uncommon flora and animals from the Republic of Belarus’ Red Book, as well as the architectural history that has been conserved in the north of the Verkhnedvinsky district.
The photographs capture breathtaking vistas of glacial lakes, rivers and streams, swamps, hills, forests and black sandstones, as well as a sense of free space and the primeval nature of Krasnoborski krai. The starry sky and Lake Izubritsa, the fog over Lake Beloe, the Svolna river from above all impress with their magnificence. The naturalness of the portraits of animals like bison, cuckoos, kingfishers, and Ural owls as well as the lively pictures of elks, deer, fallow deer, and other forest creatures enthral. Pictures of the Assumption Church in the village of Sarja, the Gilzen’s and Shadursky’s palaces ruins in Osveja, the remains of the bell tower of the Euphrosyne of Polotsk Church in Rositsa won’t leave viewers indifferent.
The exhibition's opening statement was delivered by Viktor Pshybytka, the National Library of Belarus's deputy director general. Anastasia Biadulina, representative of the Belarus' Ministry of Education, discussed the unique value of the opulent modern tourist complex of one of the country's largest nature conservation sites and thanked the photographers for their active efforts to promote the beauty and distinctiveness of the natural environment of the country.
Founder and director of the regional history publishing house "Riftur", author of the project "Krasnoborsky Krai", director of the Republican Fund for Tourism Development and Wildlife Support "Planet without Borders", and photographer Sergey Plytkevich revealed the project's main concept and introduced its participants – teachers Valery Vedrenko, Irina Gudievskaja, Viktor Malyshits, and Natalia Lokotko, students–winners of the republican photo contest "Youth View" Anna Berezhkova, Ivan Verezub, Anna Dominika Grib, Maria Ziganorova, Mikhail Lukjanchik, and Valeria Protasevich.
Sergei Miliuhin, a travel photografer, teacher of Krasnoborsky School of Phatography, and the exhibition's participant Mikhail Lukjanchik, student of Brest state univercity named after A.S. Pushkin, spoke in-depth about the fascinating and simultaneously very complex process of photographing wildlife, the diversity of Krasnoborskaya Pushcha, where for a few kilometres of a wonderful journey you can see pine forests, challenging swamps, birch groves, black sandstones, and learn about several animals from the Red Book of the Republic of Belarus.
The public is introduced to the photography for the first time.
The exhibition will run until 25 May, 2023.
The end date of the exhibition can be changed.
Visiting the exhibition is included into the price of visiting the Observation deck.
The opening hours of the exhibition corresponds to the Observation Deck’s opening hours.
For more info: (+375 17) 368 37 37.
The article is provided by the Public Relations Department.
