The path of life is ingenuous in its minute-by-minute manifestation, until the minute that completes it and exposes all the sorrow of love. Time accumulates love, transforming the artlessness of the preceding minutes into a revelation of the existence of the human soul, clothed in the cover of flesh and blood, united with the vastness of the earthly limits promised to it, and cultivating this inheritance.

How can we not hope for the destiny of human life, each of its minutes, which have become eternal in its inextinguishable images embodied by the light of love? How can we not believe in the light of truth that appears before us in these images? 

Evgeny Berezner / Moscow, Russia,facebook.com/evgenyberezner

Ordinary Photos

Misha Maslennikov / Ordinary Photos / Vitebsk 2018. Noga Creative Union

The story is an ordinary one. An ordinary photographer loads a black-and-white film into his mechanical camera and goes far, far away, as far away as possible. There, an ordinary life awaits him, very simple in the passage of time and extremely ingenuous in the simplicity of its subjects. Ordinary people, ordinary entourage, ordinary relationships… Not surprising, we’ve seen it more than once, both in life and directly in photography. Then why? What’s the point? What’s the interest? The visual representation begs no less a series of questions. An abundance of central compositions, frontal angles, familiar plans. What is it: a manner, a style, a particular form of perception? There are many questions, just as there could be many answers. But he is one. Like a lonely choice, like a mined essence. In a simple decision, seemingly ordinary, perhaps, to the extent of strength and skill, graceful, to see depth. A depth accessible to everyone. All that remains is to dive in.


Misha Maslennikov / Ordinary Photos / Vitebsk 2018. Noga Creative Union
Misha Maslennikov / Ordinary Photos / Vitebsk 2018. Noga Creative Union
Misha Maslennikov / Ordinary Photos / Vitebsk 2018. Noga Creative Union
Misha Maslennikov / Ordinary Photos / Vitebsk 2018. Noga Creative Union
Misha Maslennikov / Ordinary Photos / Vitebsk 2018. Noga Creative Union
Misha Maslennikov / Ordinary Photos / Vitebsk 2018. Noga Creative Union
Misha Maslennikov / Ordinary Photos / Vitebsk 2018. Noga Creative Union
Misha Maslennikov / Ordinary Photos / Vitebsk 2018. Noga Creative Union
Misha Maslennikov / Ordinary Photos / Vitebsk 2018. Noga Creative Union
Misha Maslennikov / Ordinary Photos / Vitebsk 2018. Noga Creative Union
Misha Maslennikov / Ordinary Photos / Vitebsk 2018. Noga Creative Union
Misha Maslennikov / Ordinary Photos / Vitebsk 2018. Noga Creative Union
Misha Maslennikov / Ordinary Photos / Vitebsk 2018. Noga Creative Union
Misha Maslennikov / Ordinary Photos / Vitebsk 2018. Noga Creative Union
Misha Maslennikov / Ordinary Photos / Vitebsk 2018. Noga Creative Union
Misha Maslennikov / Ordinary Photos / Vitebsk 2018. Noga Creative Union
Misha Maslennikov / Ordinary Photos / Vitebsk 2018. Noga Creative Union
Misha Maslennikov / Ordinary Photos / Vitebsk 2018. Noga Creative Union
Misha Maslennikov / Ordinary Photos / Vitebsk 2018. Noga Creative Union
Misha Maslennikov / Ordinary Photos / Vitebsk 2018. Noga Creative Union
Misha Maslennikov / Ordinary Photos / Vitebsk 2018. Noga Creative Union
Misha Maslennikov / Ordinary Photos / Vitebsk 2018. Noga Creative Union
Misha Maslennikov / Ordinary Photos / Vitebsk 2018. Noga Creative Union
Misha Maslennikov / Ordinary Photos / Vitebsk 2018. Noga Creative Union
Misha Maslennikov / Ordinary Photos / Vitebsk 2018. Noga Creative Union
Misha Maslennikov / Ordinary Photos / Vitebsk 2018. Noga Creative Union

The International Photo Festival “PHOTOKROK” named after Sigismund Yurkovsky was created as a platform for amateur photographers, where the exchange of creative and professional experience is possible.

Organizer of the photofest — Vitebsk Fund of Photography “FotoKrok” with the support of the Department of Culture of the Vitebsk City Executive Committee.

The aim of the Photofest is to unite national and foreign photo enthusiasts in the most creative place of the Republic of Belarus — the city of Vitebsk. To attract creative people in the field of photography and thus to popularise Vitebsk at the national and world level with the help of their creativity.

The objectives of the photofest-show the audience a high level of photographic culture through a number of high-class photographic exhibitions of both classics of photography, and the best works of modern amateur photographers on a competitive basis. To conduct educational master classes, lectures, sessions portfolio review to improve photo skills among amateur photographers. To create a place of continuity between amateurs and professionals, a platform for reflecting the diversity of reality through photography.

Location of the Republic of Belarus is unique, it borders with 5 states, the participants of which determine the international status of the festival, which invites amateurs and professionals of photography from Russia, Ukraine, Poland, Lithuania, Latvia and of course Belarus to participate in the competition and the festival itself.


Misha Maslennikov / Ordinary Photos / Vitebsk 2018. Noga Creative Union
Misha Maslennikov / Ordinary Photos / Vitebsk 2018. Noga Creative Union
Misha Maslennikov / Ordinary Photos / Vitebsk 2018. Noga Creative Union
Misha Maslennikov / Ordinary Photos / Vitebsk 2018. Noga Creative Union

events

Misha Maslennikov / Ordinary Photos / Vitebsk 2018. Noga Creative Union

Sergey Trapezin

Please welcome our new NCU member. Sergey Trapezin was born in 1972 in Moscow, USSR. Based in Moscow, Russia.
Misha Maslennikov / Ordinary Photos / Vitebsk 2018. Noga Creative Union

Eugene Kanaev

Please welcome our new NCU member. Evgeny Kanaev was born in 1955 in Zelenodolsk, USSR. Based in Kazan, Russia.
Misha Maslennikov / Ordinary Photos / Vitebsk 2018. Noga Creative Union

Viktor Ratushny

Please welcome our new NCU member. Victor Ratushny was born 1952 allegedly in the Vinnytsia region, Ukrainian...
Misha Maslennikov / Ordinary Photos / Vitebsk 2018. Noga Creative Union

Odessa 2013

'Ordinary Photos' 1 — 15 October, 2013 Noga Creative Union, Department of Culture, Nationalities, Religions and the...
Misha Maslennikov / Ordinary Photos / Vitebsk 2018. Noga Creative Union

Nizhny Novgorod 2013

'3 Outskirts' 3 — 16 April, 2013 Noga Creative Union, Ministry of Culture of the Nizhny Novgorod Region, and Russian...
Misha Maslennikov / Ordinary Photos / Vitebsk 2018. Noga Creative Union

Yekaterinburg 2012

'3 Outskirts: Karelia, Altai, Chukotka' 14 May — 20 June, 2012 Noga Creative Union and GM Photo Gallery present...
Misha Maslennikov / Ordinary Photos / Vitebsk 2018. Noga Creative Union

Anna Voitenko

Please welcome our new NCU member. Anna Voitenko was born in 1979 in Kiev, Ukraine. Based in Kiev, Ukraine.
Misha Maslennikov / Ordinary Photos / Vitebsk 2018. Noga Creative Union

Alex Melia

Please welcome our new NCU member. Alex Melia was born in 1972 in Moscow, USSR. Based in Moscow, Russia.
Misha Maslennikov / Ordinary Photos / Vitebsk 2018. Noga Creative Union

Eric Gourlan

Please welcome our new NCU member. Eric Gourlan was born in 1968 in the town of Lunel (southern France). Based...
Misha Maslennikov / Ordinary Photos / Vitebsk 2018. Noga Creative Union

Emil Gataullin

Please welcome our new NCU member. Emil Gataullin was born in 1972 in Yoshkar-Ola, Republic of Mari El, USSR. Based...
Misha Maslennikov / Ordinary Photos / Vitebsk 2018. Noga Creative Union

Moscow 2008

'WE' 8 — 28 September, 2008 Noga Creative Union and Theophania Art Gallery present the first solo exhibition of Misha...
Misha Maslennikov / Ordinary Photos / Vitebsk 2018. Noga Creative Union

Alexander Shumskikh

Welcome one of the first members of the NCU. Alexander Shumskikh was born in 1972 in Moscow, USSR. Based in Moscow,...
Misha Maslennikov / Ordinary Photos / Vitebsk 2018. Noga Creative Union

Misha Maslennikov

Head of NCU. Misha Maslennikov was born in 1964 in Dobroe settlement close to Moscow, USSR. Based in Odessa, Ukraine.
Misha Maslennikov / Ordinary Photos / Vitebsk 2018. Noga Creative Union

DANNONG / China 2024

‘Replication of what we saw’ 1 August — 30 September 2024. DANNONG presents an exhibition of documentary photography...
Misha Maslennikov / Ordinary Photos / Vitebsk 2018. Noga Creative Union

Vitebsk 2024

‘And Quiet Flows the Volga’ 26 — 30 June 2024. Noga Creative Union, within the framework of the IX International...
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