Abdullah Alikhazhievich Bersaev ( Chech. Bersaev ӀabdullahӀ ; born December 12, 1982 , Tevzana Vedeno district of the Chechen-Ingush Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic [2] ) is a well-known Chechen photographer [3] . The most famous landscape painter of Chechnya and one of the most famous in the North Caucasus [1] . Photos by A. Bersaev are popular both in Russia and abroad [2] .
| Abdullah Alikhazhievich Bersaev | |
|---|---|
| Chech. Bersaev Ӏabdullah Ӏ | |
| Date of Birth | December 12, 1982 (36 years old) |
| Place of Birth | Tevzana Vedeno district Chechen-Ingush Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic |
| Citizenship |  Russia |
| Occupation | photographer |
| Father | Alikhazhi |
| Children | three [1] |
Content
- 1 Biography
- 1.1 Prizes
- 1.2 Exhibitions
- 1.3 Family
- 2 notes
Biography
Born December 12, 1982 , in with. Tevzan of the Vedeno district of the Chechen-Ingush Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic [2] . At a young age he was fond of drawing, but then Abdullah had to leave his favorite business [2] . During the war in Chechnya, A. Bersaev’s family moved to the Lipetsk region. In 2001-2003, he served in the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation in Nizhny Novgorod. After returning to Chechnya, he did not do anything for some time [4] . Years later, Abdullah returned to this occupation, but already as a photographer [2] .
Abdullah has been engaged in photography since 2010. Initially, it was a small photo studio in which he took photos of documents and provided various computer services. Closing the photo studio, he began to shoot weddings, to conduct photo shoots to order, but this also did not bring him satisfaction over time [2] .
When A. Bersaev began to photograph landscapes of Chechnya, the Yandex search engine issued mostly shots of the counter-terrorist operation [1] .
| When I started, the search engines didn’t give out anything good for “photos, mountains, Chechnya”. In the best case, long-groomed places where you can get by car. Kezenoy-Am Lake, Itum-Kali, Tsoi-Pede. It was interesting for me to become a pioneer and take pictures of what is off the road, go deeper into the gorges. "Pushing counterterrorism operations from fresh search results from Yandex has become a personal mission for Bersaev. Now carefully selected clean material shot in the most hard-to-reach places of the republic, 4 Tb have already accumulated. In the mountains, roads and bright yellow pipes of gas pipelines are laid, so the picture they shot gradually disappears. |
A. Bersaev began taking pictures as a professional when the Head of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov subscribed to the page of A. Bersaev. After some time, R. Kadyrov personally contacted and praised Abdullah Bersaev for his work. After that, the Head of the Republic R. Kadyrov helped in the acquisition of photographic equipment, and since then Abdullah began to engage in landscape photography at a serious level [2] .
Timur Agiev, an Ingush colleague, writes the following about A. Bersaev [2] :
| Abdullah in his native Chechnya, just like I in Ingushetia, wants to systematically capture all the sights by introducing guests of the region to them. For this purpose, he is ready to sit in the mountains for days, without sleep, food and comfort, reeling on his Priora 200 km a day on dangerous roads, through mountain passes, without making an exception even in the month of ramadan, observing the fast |
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Prizes
In 2014, A. Bersaev won prizes in the Internet competition “Chenet-2014 Award” and the North Caucasian Internet award “Prometheus-2014” [2] .
Exhibitions
The first author’s exhibition of A. Bersaev was held in the village of Khoy in the Cheberloevsky district of Chechnya, dedicated to the holding of the Kezenoi-Am 2017 Cup sailing regatta. It was helped by both local authorities and the urban designer Yuri Berestov, who financed it. The exhibition was held in the evening under the open sky [2] [5] . In 2017, A. Bersaev took part in a photo exhibition which took place in the Moscow metro [6] . And at the exhibition in Sochi [7] .
Family
Married, has three children [1] .
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 Olga Kalantarova. Mountains, towers, people and photographer - In the Country - TASS Mar 23, 2018
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Zhamilya ABDURAGIMOV. Through the eyes of a photographer ...
- ↑ 04/30/2018 Photo artist from Chechnya conquered social networks with unique mountain landscapes
- ↑ Chechen photographer Abdullah Bersaev: “My main goal is to show the whole world the beauty of my native land” 03/01/2016 11:18
- ↑ An open-air museum was created in the ancient Chechen village of Khoy
- ↑ A photo exhibition about the North Caucasus has opened in the Moscow metro 11 Oct 2017
- ↑ An exhibition on the ecology of the North Caucasus takes place in Sochi