“Old World” goes Cologne
The project “The Old World” is a part of a big exhibition “A glimpse of time – photographic portraits of old age and ageing”.
The exhibition includes photographs from the beginning of the 20th century to the present. Using the example of the portrait, in serial projects, photographers of different generations and origins approach the many facets of the phenomenon of “age and aging”.
With works by Christian Borchert, John Coplans, Imogen Cunningham, Deanna Dikeman, Jess T. Dugan, Albrecht Fuchs, Katja Kerstin Hock, Manfred Jade, Evi Lemberger/Maria Göckeritz, Andreas Mader, Helga Paris, Natalya Reznik, Martin Rosswog, August Sander , Cindy Sherman, Daniel Schumann, Wilhelm Schurmann, Larry Sultan.
So proud to be among such big names!
Here you can find text about the exhibition (in German).
Opening of the exhibition 01.03.24, 7 pm in Cologne
Die Photographische Sammlung/SK Stiftung Kultur
Im Mediapark 7
50670 Cologne
Natalya Reznik will be present at the opening.
Photos by Louis Roth / Stiftung Schloss Neuhardenberg.
Exhibition about old age in Neuhardenberg castle near Berlin
The project “The Old World” is a part of a big exhibition “A glimpse of time – photographic portraits of old age and ageing”, 9.9.23 – 17.12.23, Neuhardenberg Castle Foundation, Schinkelplatz, 15320, Neuhardenberg, Germany.
The show is curated by Gabriele Conrath-Scholl and Claudia Schubert from Cologne photographic collection.
With works by Christian Borchert, John Coplans, Imogen Cunningham, Deanna Dikeman, Jess T. Dugan, Albrecht Fuchs, Katja Kerstin Hock, Manfred Jade, Evi Lemberger/Maria Göckeritz, Andreas Mader, Helga Paris, Natalya Reznik, Martin Rosswog, August Sander , Cindy Sherman, Daniel Schumann, Wilhelm Schurmann, Larry Sultan.
The exhibition includes photographs from the beginning of the 20th century to the present. Using the example of the portrait, in serial projects, photographers of different generations and origins approach the many facets of the phenomenon of “age and aging”.
More information here.
Publication about the exhibition in a HeyDay magazine (in German)
From spring 2024 also on display in the Photographic Collection/SK Stiftung Kultur in Cologne.
Photos by Louis Roth / Stiftung Schloss Neuhardenberg.
Uncharted Shores. Photography of the Post-Soviet Interim
The exhibition “Uncharted Shores. Photography of the Post-Soviet Interim” was held at the National Gallery of Armenia, organised by the Experiment Online Gallery in collaboration with the Center for Documentary Photography 4Plus.
The project aims to reflect on some of those shifts that have fostered the conflicts in Ukraine, Armenia and other parts of the ex-Soviet Union. Curators Victoria Musvik and Vigen Galstyan.
I am very honored to be present with such great artists as Fyodor Telkov, Alexander Gronsky, Anastasia Tsayder, Maxim Sher.
Photo © Natalya Reznik “Virtual Acquaintances”, 2008.
New Book Release
Very glad that several of my pictures (from the projects “Hope” and “Needful things”) are included into the book by Thomas Werner “Business of Fine Art Photography“.
Thomas Werner is the former owner of Thomas Werner Gallery in Manhattan’s Chelsea Art District; author of The Fashion Image; past Photography Program Director at Parsons School of Design in New York; Editor at Large for IRK Magazine; and an exhibiting artist, currently curating, lecturing, and consulting internationally.
The book is available at Amazon.
“The Old World” at “IDENTITIES” photo festival
3X4=ORAIN photo book exhibition in Museum San Telmo
Music, film and literature in the photo book: Exhibition in San-Sebastian, Spain, Museum San Telmo. I am very happy to be included in the show with my photo book „Looking for my father“.
Understanding cinema as the observation of an event inserted in the flow of time allows us to understand the key influence of this discipline in the way of conceiving and interpreting a photobook. Following this logic, the photographs become cinematographic shots that are sequenced to be visualised in time and space.
The construction of the sequence of photographs in these books pays special attention to rhythm and is very close to musical structure, in which logical interpretation is not as important as the play of the emotions conveyed. In the photobook, the images are edited based on aspects such as colour, tone or form to build a unitary work that, like music, must be interpreted. The action of turning the pages thus builds the rhythm of each work at the very moment of being contemplated. Each photobook acquires a duration, a particular meaning in the hands of each reader, turning each reading into a personal and unique journey.
The photographs that make up the sequence of the book are ordered with a single intention: to build a narrative to be interpreted. This succession of images often makes use of literary forms, such as ellipses or metaphors, to relate complex facts through an open visual rhetoric which is subject to multiple readings.
Curator Jon Cazenave, books from the collection of Gabriela Cendoya-Bergareche are on display till 30.10.2022
The Lonka Project in Berlin
27.01 was International Holocaust Remembrance Day. On the occasion of the commemoration day of the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp by Red Army soldiers on 27 January 1945, Willy-Brandt-Haus (Berlin) presents this year virtually “The Lonka Project” – a photographic homage to the last Holocaust survivors. 300 of the world’s leading photographers (among them Roger Ballen and Steve McCurry) have photographed Holocaust survivors around the world and created a unique exhibition. The project has been organised by Rina Castelnuovo. I am glad to be a part of this important exhibition with my portrait of Asya Levit (Nuremberg)!
Asya Levit (Yasya Rothenberg)
“Rothenberg Yasya Jakovna, born 1936 in Slavuta, Ukraine. Jew, school pupil. Executed by fashists 27.06.42. Buried in a mass grave in the town Slavuta, Khmelnytskyi district”.
There is such a record in the Book of Sorrow, Ukraine. That day in a town Slavuta happened the bloody massacre, thousands of Jews were executed. The local Jews and those from the towns near-by were rounded up to the square of ghetto to be shot.
“All members of my family, including my 8 y.o. brother, have been shot and their bodies were dumped in a ditch. According to the order of the fascist officer not to waste the ammunition, the jewish children were dumped into a mass grave alive”. 6 years old Yasya Rothenberg has been dumped in a ditch as well, but by some miracle she managed to escape and survive. She was saved by guerrillas and transferred to Yaroslavl (Russia) into an orphanage. She has no memory about this tragic day. She discovered all these facts many years later coming to her hometown Slavuta to get more information about her roots.
Asya Levit (Rothenberg) emigrated to Germany with her husband a long time ago. After death of her spouse she lives in Nuremberg city, sings in the choir of local Synagogue which performs concerts in different countries.
Based on materials of the newspaper “Jewish News” (Ukraine) No. 7 (418) 2009, and according to the narrated story of Asya Rothenberg.
From now on here.
Reverse Portfolio Walk at German Photographic Academy
31.10.2020 German Photographic Academy (Deutsche Fotografische Akademie, DFA) organised our REVERSE PORTFOLIO REVIEW with the DFA member, photographer Anastasia Khoroshilova.
We both come from Russia, we work with similar topics like elderly people and memory, but we never ever met…
Thank you for the organisation of this online talk, DFA and Boris Eldagsen!
The video is available on the FB page of DFA.
"The Old World" is shortlisted for Vonovia award
I am happy to be nominated for one of the most prestigious Germany’s photo awards Vonovia Award für Fotografie for my project “The Old World”. All the shortlisted candidates will take part with their projects in 3 exhibitions – in Hannover and Bochum (Germany) and in Austrian capital city Vienna.
The first exhibition in Städtische Galerie KUBUS, Hannover, will open already 5.12.2020.
Stay up to date!
"The Old World" selected by German Photographic Academy
I am happy to be one of the six finalists of the 3rd Online Portfolio Walk of German Photographic Academy: Alina Simmelbauer, Hannes Jung, Jörg Gläscher, Natalya Reznik, Sima Cz, Uwe Krella. My project “The Old World” about beauty in old age has been selected by the jury. One of the portraits from this series is also selected for the announcement of the next round of the photo walk. Enjoy discovering the great selection at this link.
Member of the jury Ingo Taubhorn about the project “The Old World”:
“With her portraits, which are reminiscent of classic poses of Italian painting and could perhaps be called a half-portrait of an elegant lady, Reznik creates an incredible intensity that blurs the balance between closeness and distance. She describes her motivation to photograph this series of portraits as follows: “I’m trying to imagine what our society could look like in 30 or 50 years?” We all know that older people rarely appear in our media landscape and when, in terms of old age poverty or Illness. Not so with Reznik. She celebrates with light, color, pose and detail, elegant women who do not hide their traces of an eventful life story and celebrate their present life with grace and pride. “This project wants to look for a new kind of beauty for the future,” says Reznik. She succeeded brilliantly, thanks to her empathy and clever use of photo technology and thanks to these strong women.”