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Tuesday, February 21, 2023

On February 6, Russian Wikinews attended the opening day of Russian photographer Viktor Pinchuk’s 12th exhibition, Afghanistan, 2008, hosted by the Crimean Ethnographic Museum in Simferopol.

The 40-item collection was produced during a two-month journey, including visits to seven Asian nations, with a focus on local life. It included landscape, portrait, street, ethnographic, and narrative photographs, mostly in the straight style.

The exhibition drew gymnasium students, members of a local teachers’ club, and Soviet–Afghan War veterans.

Pinchuk said, “The solo expedition, whose main purpose was to visit Afghanistan, ended successfully: stay in country, rated as the most dangerous and undesirable for tourism, went off without a major incidents; a short ‘rest’ in Kabul prison served as the event around which unwinds plot of the book Afghan prisoner, becoming one of adventures, without which our life would have turned into a dull execution of duties. But, main important, material for the photo exhibition was prepared in accordance with the idea, safely delivered to the homeland, and presented in the museum exhibition hall.”

• A poster for the exhibition.

• A poster describing Pinchuk’s previous exhibitions.

• Visitors.

• A visitor.

• Local students visiting.

• Pinchuk in front of his photographs.

• Interesting…

• A veteran of the Soviet-Afghan War.

• Visitors.

• Pinchuk speaking about the voyage.

A sampling of the exhibited works:

• A “stone crematorium” in Bamyan Province.

• A valley in Bamyan Province.

• The only street in the Bamyan Province village Chardi.

• Two Mazar-i-Sharif men conversing.

• A young woman in Mazar-i-Sharif.