Jerusalem is not just a city

Dmitry Brickman’s photos show an attempt to understand the nature of things that people tend not to notice, to look into the eyes of the people whose fortunes were twined with ours for a fleeting moment. The photographer encourages us not only to look at the photos but also try to understand them, because each photo shows somebody’s life. Even the photos with no people in them show somebody’s life.

The exhibition includes portraits, genre photos and photojournalism. The exhibition “Jerusalem is not just a city” has already been displayed in Moscow, St. Petersburg, Veliky Novgorod and  Novosibirsk. Finally, this exhibition will be displayed in Voronezh.

Moreover, Dmitry Brickman gives a workshop “Photography. To see what has been seen” in the House of Journalists at 15.00 on the 9th of June. Brickman will tell us about the most important ability of every photographer – an ability to “see”.

“Once I met a person who loved photography very much, – Dmitry Brickman says – This man knew everything about photography: all camera brands, qualities of photographic lenses, characteristics of photo matrixes and photo flashes. He knew thousands of ways of editing photos. I asked him where I could have a look at his photos. “Nowhere, – he said calmly. – I am not a photographer. I CANNOT SEE”. It goes without saying that meant not the physical ability to see”.

Brickman will tell us how to learn to “see” cities, people, fortune, silence, love, creativity, music, how to “see” things that cannot be seen.

Dmitry Brickman was born in Leningrad, but now he lives in Israel. In 2009 a publishing house “Piter” published his photo book “Jerusalem is not just a city”. Dmitry Brickman has also got photographs that depict musicians and theatre life. In August in 2013 at the Windows to Europe Film Festival in Vyborg his photofilm “Ecclesiastes. Phototranslation” was shown to public for the first time.

The exhibition and the workshop are organized in collaboration with the Embassy of Israel in Russia.