Ordinary days and holidays and significant dates
Mikhail Dashevsky is a documentary photographer but he positions himself as art photographer. His works belong to minor form, usually making single images, sometimes with series, and creating each time poetically complex image.
I think that an event can not stay with the viewer for long. Witnessing something happen, having an emotional reaction to it, yes, but not watching again and again every day someone looking over his shoulder, someone falling, jumping, kissing, it's not interesting. The essence of genre photography, to me, is capturing the situation that makes emotional impact on the photographer, or the viewer, and makes them put the picture on their wall and thus let it into their lives. Mikhail Dashevsky
I think that an event can not stay with the viewer for long. Witnessing something happen, having an emotional reaction to it, yes, but not watching again and again every day someone looking over his shoulder, someone falling, jumping, kissing, it's not interesting. The essence of genre photography, to me, is capturing the situation that makes emotional impact on the photographer, or the viewer, and makes them put the picture on their wall and thus let it into their lives.
Mikhail Dashevsky
The exhibition at ROSHOTO comprises photographs of both ordinary days and holidays and significant dates in Moscow history. These images capture the everyday life in Moscow, as seen by an insider sharing the city's life.
Mikhail Dashevsky was born in 1935 in Moscow. In 1953 he entered Hydrotechnical Faculty of Moscow Engineering and Construction Institute which he graduated from in 1958. He worked for a short time at Stalingrad and Bratskaya hydroelectric stations construction sites, further for forty years in Moscow at a construction research institute. Mikhail Dashevsky has a Ph.D. in Technical Sciences, he specializes in vibration protection of buildings.
Such are my life and mindset, mixture of rebellion and technique, which is not unimportant for art photography «about people».
Dashevsky dedicated his whole life to photography: having started as photographer in early 1960s, in 1969 he became member of Novator, the famous Moscow photographers club.
Sunken Time. Photographs by Mikhail Dashevsky. 1962–1992
State Architecture Museum, Shusev Museum, Moscow (2003), Museum of Non-Conformism, St.-Petersburg (2004), Andrey Sakharov Center, Moscow (2006), International Photography Festival, Poznan, Poland (2007), St.-Filaret Orthodox Christian Institute, Moscow (2007), Lithuanian Photographic Society, Fuji Film Gallery, Kaunas (2008), Fotovisa Festival, Krasnodar (2008), Lego Gallery, Kolomna (2008), Technical University, Tokio, Japan (2008)
As Seen by the Old House, Moscow Reflecting
Belyayevo Gallery (program of Photography Biennial), Moscow (2008)
1969–1989 – annual exhibitions of Novator photographers club, Moscow
1998, 2000, 2004, 2006 – Photography Biennial, Moscow
2001 – Month of Photography International Festival in Bratislava, Slovakia
2002 – Silver Camera, Moscow
2008 – Photography of 1960–1970s (Photography in the USSR in 1960-1070s). Central House of Artists, Moscow
In 2004 M. Dashevsky’s book Sunken Time. 1962-1992 was awarded first prize in Contemporary Photography Publication section of the International competition of photography books in Central and East Europe that was held in Bratislava, Slovakia.
Mikhail Dashevsky’s photographs are owned by The State Museum of Architecture – Shusev Museum (Moscow), art collectors in Russia, France, and Japan.
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