MOSCOW STUDY at the photo festival “Düsseldorf Photo”: Documentary Photography

Untensed, apolitical, humorous, reflective

The documentary photographer Thomas Klingberg presents a photographic cross-section of his documentary and partly social documentary work “MOSCOW STUDY” at the Düsseldorf Photo Festival, which takes place from 16 to 25 February 2018 in the NRW state capital. During his two-month stay in Moscow, a very close, apolitical and relaxed, humorous and thought-provoking photo series about the people and face of the Russian capital was created.

People and cityscapes outside the typical scenery

Klingberg’s photographic works from everyday life in Moscow are intended to link an alternative mental imagery with the “concept” of Moscow, which is often occupied with diffuse, abstract and above all politics-heavy prejudices, without including real people and cityscapes outside the typical backdrops.

Semantic corrective of existing mindsets

Klingberg would like his impressions to be interpreted as a kind of “semantic corrective”, intended for people who themselves have no connection to Moscow and would like to approach the metropolis away from political reporting and without a distancing artistic visual language through the eyes of a naive flâneur.

Social Documentary Photography

In addition to the classical documentary approach, Klingberg’s photographs also include aspects of contemporary social documentary photography.

Curator: Jaqueline Lobodda
Genre: Social Documentary Photography, Documentary Photography

Opening: 16 February 2018
Time: 18:00 – 21:00 o’clock
Atelier am Eck, Düsseldorf
Himmelgeister Straße 107 e

Selected Preview

Encounter in Moscow

Young people in moscow at Winzavod

Ksenia from Moscow, owner of a vintage fashion boutique

Graffiti in Moscow

Singer of the Moscow band SPAINT

Lana Abramova, MoscowPhotographer and Teacher at Rodchenko Art School of PhotographyGenre: PortraitPicture Date: September 2017Photo: Thomas Klingberg

Mark, bon vivant in Moscow

Ksenia from Moscow, owner of a fashion boutique

Wedding couple in Moscow

Children in a luxury limousine in Moscow

Shopkeeper from Kyrgyzstan in Moscow

Office worker in Moscow with Putin picture

Anna from MoscowGenre: Portrait, documentary photographyFrom the documentary MOSCOW STUDY

From a modern ballet performance in Moscow

Moscow. Gorky Park

Boy at a war memorial in Moscow

Young Christians in Moscow

Street scene in Moscow

Old Town of Moscow

The urban space as a place of human mass keeping. From the exhibition stadTraum in GelsenkirchenGenre: Documentary Photography, Social Documentary PhotographyPicture Location: MoscowCreated in October 2017Further information on the exhibition stadTraum unter stadTraum

Painters in Moscow, Academy of Arts

Street scene in Moscow

The woman in the red hatMoscow, 2017, Socialdocumentary Photography

Street scene in Moscow

Exhibition in Moscow

Girl with her mother during chemotherapy in a children's cancer clinic in Moscow.

Red October. Old chocolate factory Moscow

Poor woman in Moscow

Security guard in Moscow

Surroundings behind the Kursk railway station in Moscow

Cafe in the Winzavod Modern Art Centre in Moscow

In the streets of Moscow

Architecture in Moscow. Documentary photography

Shell of a building in Moscow

New development area in Moscow City

House in Novokosino, Moscow

New development area in Moscow CityMoscow International Business Center

Mobile scaffolding in Moscow

Window cleaner in Moscow

Matryoshka street vendor in Moscow

MOSCOW, RUSSIA

Metro in Moscow

ALL MB 2015, Moskau-Berlin ProtokollDmitry Rogachev National Research Center

Supermarket in Moscow

Rozhdestvensky Convent, Moscow

Rozhdestvensky Convent, Moscow

Church interior in Moscow

Church in Moscow

Cathedral of Christ the Saviour in Moscow