lens culture: Portraits from the Russian Tea Room

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The photography exhibition “Regarde-moi dans les yeux” (or “Look me in the eyes”), at the Russian Tea Room Gallery is an attempt to study the question of identity of Russian photography. Through the portraits of their comrades, the photographs exhibited here approach the issue of Russian photography like a magnifying glass, trying to answer two crucial mirroring questions: “What is a Russian portrait?” and “What does Russian photography truly look like?”

Check it out here.