Exhibition of Nikolai Kondakov "City Mosaic" Automatic translate

Historically, the city is the hallmark of humanity. Which, in turn, does not represent life outside the urban environment, creating in it its own culture, traditions, even its own urban landscape. The exhibition "City Mosaic", which opens on February 9 at the sports art club "Gallery", presents the exposition of the photographer Nikolai Kondakov, collected from his works of different years, which he did primarily in the city.

The long-term keen interest of the photographer Nikolai Kondakov is people or, as he calls it, “types”. For a photographer, “type” is not only an appearance, but also an emotional component, and the opportunity to catch the good, good side of a person, to reflect his essence. And the biggest source of “human types” is the urban environment.

Maybe that’s why the psychological urban portrait, genre photo and city photo are so close to the author, for whom a person in the city is a long-term source of creative discoveries. Kondakov, with his works, shows that in order to find something amazing and memorable for a long time it is not necessary to go far from home. An urban mosaic, an endless kaleidoscope of the life of a megalopolis can give an attentive photographer food for creating many beautiful photographs.

Nikolai himself says: “I never do staging work, for me live,“ unreheeded ”shots that convey the essence of the urban whirlwind, with many-sided mosaics, are very important. City mosaic is a very precise definition for this exhibition, everything is connected here - the reportage, portraits, architecture, and even reflections in city puddles… "

Nikolai Kondakov is a native Muscovite. He has been fond of photography from a very young age, at first there was a Komsomolets camera, then, by coming of age Nikolay received the legendary FED. By profession, the author is an engineer-technologist, for a long time he worked in the Giproniyaaviaprom. In Soviet times, one of the best photo laboratories in Moscow was located at this research institute, where a conscious understanding of photography as art came to him. It was there, in the framework of fun student exhibitions, his works were first exhibited. Later, Kondakov became a member of numerous online photo exhibitions and competitions on the Internet.