Lyalya Mendybaevna Kuznetsova (Halitova) [3] English Ljalja Kuznetsova ; (August 4 [3] 1946 , Uralsk , Kazakhstan ) - Soviet, Russian photographer .
| Lyalya Kuznetsova | |
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| Birth name | Lyalya Mendybaevna Halitova |
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| Citizenship |  the USSR  Russia |
| Occupation | engineer , photographer |
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Biography
Lyalya Kuznetsova, Tatar , was born on August 4, 1946 in the city of Uralsk ( Kazakhstan ). Graduated from Kazan State Aviation Institute . He works as an engineer, and in the late 1970s took up photography.
Since 1978, she worked as a photographer at the Kazan State Museum of Art.
Participates in meetings of photographers in Lithuania, and in the late 70s was admitted to the Union of Lithuanian Photographers . In the early 80s, he worked as a photographer in the newspaper "Evening Kazan", dealing with issues of modern fashion. Since that time, Lyalya Kuznetsova has become an independent photographer and lives with orders for the Republican Fashion House of Tatarstan.
A participant in the legendary TASMA photo group (Vladimir Zotov, Edward Khakimov, Rifkhat Yakupov , Farit Gubaev and many other photographers).
Since the mid-80s, her works have been repeatedly exhibited and published in Europe and the USA, including in the gallery The Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington.
Participant of the InterPhoto festival (1996) in Moscow.
In the late 70s, Kuznetsova takes off one of the last gypsy camps in the USSR (in Turkmenistan), a little later her gypsy series continues in the Odessa steppes ...
When they say that I glorify the free life of gypsies or something like that, I think: the photograph that a person takes is partly his self-portrait. When I mastered the camera, found out how the film appears, how it all prints, I started looking for frames that are consonant with my heart. Naturally, I did not fight for any rights of Roma, I just realized that in our society they are deprived of so many rights. Most of them are people who go to the horizon, and this horizon leaves them.
The photographer is looking for his picture. And when he finds, he says: yes, okay, this is mine. That is, this click occurs in the heart. For example, I always knew when I showed the film which frame to look for. Even Cartier-Bresson talked about the fact that a combination of what he saw and what is happening in you should happen - this is indeed so. I have experienced this on myself and can confirm: this is exactly what is happening.
- Lyalya Kuznetsova
Exhibitions
- 2008 Victory Gallery , WINZAVOD Center for Contemporary Art, Moscow
- 2010 Road " Meglinskaya Gallery" , WINZAVOD Center for Contemporary Art, Moscow https://web.archive.org/web/20100928103905/http://www.winzavod.ru/sobitie/274
- 2010 "Road" exhibition hall of the Museum of Fine Arts. Kazan https://web.archive.org/web/20101227165614/http://inkazan.ru/u-lyali-kuznecovoj-svoya-doroga/
- 2011 "Road", Museum of Local Lore, Novosibirsk https://web.archive.org/web/20110107081147/http://museum.nsk.ru/afisha/396.html
Rewards
- Leica Medal of Excellence (Mother Jones) 1997
- Grand Prix of the city of Paris
Author's book
- Ljalja Kuznetsova “Shaking the Dust of Ages: Gypsies and Wanderers of the Central Asian Steppe” Publisher: Aperture, 1998 ISBN 0893816825
- Ljalja Kuznetsova "Gypsies: Free Spirits of the Open Steppe" London. Thames and Hudson. 1998 ISBN 9780500542200
- Lyalya Kuznetsova "The Road". Publishers of the book Leonid Gusev, Mila Sidorenko. Moscow 2010. ISBN 978-5-903788-09-5 http://www.knigirossii.ru/?menu=show_book&book=2230690
The works of L. Kuznetsova are presented in books.
- D.Mrazkova & V. Remes . “Another Russia,” Thames & Hudson, London 1986
- Taneli Escola & Hannu Eerikainen “Toisinnakijat” (Alien) Helsinki, 1988
- Wiktor Misiano . Die zeitgenossische Photographie in der Sowjetunion, Edition Stemmle, 1988
- "Say Cheese!", Soviet Photography 1968-1988 "Editions du Comptoir de la Photographie, 1988
- L. Bendavid-Val “Changing Reality. Recent Sowiet Photography ”, Starwood pub., USA 1991
- “Litza. Contemporary Portrait Photography from Russia, Byelorussia and Ukraine ”. Foundation "CIRC", Amsterdam, 1992
- Evgeny Berezner , Irina Chmyreva, Natalia Tarasova and Wendy Watriss . Contemporary Russian Photography, FotoFest 2012 Biennial Houston.
- "Changing Focus - A Collection of Russian and Eastern European Contemporary Photography." Sotheby's, London, 2013
Interview
- Marina Fedorovskaya. "Photographer Lyalya Kuznetsova:" On the day of shooting, my energy supply flew out all ", Interview 2011. [1]