TOMSK, Jun 9 – RIA Tomsk. Tomsk photographer Sergey Medvedchikov got the second place in a prestigious international photo contest Lensculture Street Photography Awards-2019; he submitted a series of photos about Siberia to jury, it is reported on the contest website.
"We announced a global contest to find and mark out photographers who define the modern street photo today... The second place – the Russian Federation, Sergey Medvedchikov, "Hidden in Siberia" series, – it is reported on the website.
As Medvedchikov told RIA Tomsk, Lensculture is one of the most mass and known platforms which holds several contests in a year. Lensculture Street Photography Awards is one of them where experts in the field of the street-photo and others gather. Sergey presented 10 works from the Tomsk project, which lasts since 2012.
"Ten works are an extract from the big project "Hidden in Siberia". Pictures are taken in Tomsk in different years. The street photo in such documentary section about a person and his relationship with the city. This is a local history or visual anthropology of its own kind, shooting everyday reality", – he commented.
The photographer added that three years ago he was among finalists of Lensculture Street Photography Awards, but did not become the winner. This year works of the resident of Tomsk, which led him to the victory, will be presented at exhibitions and large international festivals.
"The exhibition in New York is planned, works of all winners will be presented there. Next year the book with the best works will be published. Plus to all this Lensculture will monthly carry exhibitions and arrange displays for all year, in a year – tens of leading photofestivals", – the resident of Tomsk told.
Medvedchikov was born in Tomsk, worked and lived in other cities, since 2012 is based in the hometown. He is known in the professional environment not only as a photographer, but also as a teacher: over the last 10 years he organizes phototours and workshops in different parts of the world.
