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Tuesday 31 May 2022

Exhibition "FOOTPRINTS IN THE SAND"

 
was held at the Eastern Cultural Center of the Institute of Oriental Studies (the Russian Academy of Sciences) from the 16th of May 2022 till the 2nd of June 2022.

The works presented at the exhibition are a photographic reflection of what surrounded the Russian archaeological expedition of the Institute of Oriental Studies at field excavations in Abu Erteil, Meroe, and Gebel Barkal in Sudan.

The author focused on portraits of villagers and introduced us to the Nile valley landscape representing an ethnographic study by the method of artistic photography.

The exposition of the exhibition includes 28 photographs taken from the years 2017 to 2021. The pictures were printed manually optically on paper with a barite base according to classical technology.

On the author:

Sergey Vetokhov is a senior researcher at the Institute of Oriental Studies (the Russian Academy of Sciences), an architect in the archaeological expeditions in Egypt since 2000 and in Sudan since 2014.