Land of Ladygino. Exhibition of Lyudmila Tabolina. 6+ Automatic translate

Exhibition wing, 4th floor

The Erarta Museum presents an exhibition of the legend of Leningrad photography - Lyudmila Tabolina. The project was not made of pictures of the city on the Neva, which at one time glorified the author, but very personal, touching photographs from the native village of Lyudmila in the Tver region.

The exhibition "Ladygino Land" shows the life of the small village of Ladygino, which is located near the Vyshny Volochyok in the Tver Region. In this village, photographer Lyudmila Tabolina spent her whole childhood, where she constantly came for holidays - school and student. In the second year of university, the girl got a camera, and she began to visit her native places already with a camera.

For many years, the inhabitants of the village of Ladygino used to constantly be in the lens of Lyudmila Tabolina, and, not least due to the inclusion of the author on Wednesday, her pictures were truly sincere, devoid of the commonplace and stamps that some photographers of Russian villages sin.

In the pictures of Lyudmila Tabolina from Ladygino you can find everything: love and death, joy and pain, light and return. In the cycle “Take a walk, the village!”, Right on the street, the villagers dancing to the accordion, having arranged a holiday on May 9th. The life of the simplest household items is revealed in the light-sad cycles “Autumn Day of the Old Can” and “Old Mirror”. The author also has a lot of photographs devoted to the interior of a rural house or the way of village life, in which so much has been preserved from the traditional peasant life.

The Ladygino Land exhibition at the Erarta Museum brings together more than 70 works by Ludmila Tabolina, which she manually printed on silver-bromide paper. These images cover a wide period of the family life of the photographer and her native village - from 1964 to the present. The exhibition will also include archival photographs, the oldest of which dates from the year 1938.

About the author:

Lyudmila Sergeevna Tabolina was born in the city of Vyshny Volochok, Kalinin (now Tver) region, graduated from the Leningrad Institute of Technology with a degree in chemical engineering, and received a Ph.D. Since 1961 she lives in St. Petersburg. In 1970 - 80 years. was a member of the photo club at the Palace of Culture. Gorky and the photo club "Mirror", since 1991 - a member of the Union of Photo Artists of Russia.

Adherent of “silver” photography and hand prints, Ludmila Tabolina held more than 40 solo exhibitions. Her works are in the collections of the Russian Museum, the Pushkin Museum im. A.S. Pushkin, ROSPHOTO, Museum of the History of St. Petersburg, Museum of the History of Photography (St. Petersburg) and other museums of the country.

You can see the works of Lyudmila Tabolina in the Erart Museum until June 18, 2018.