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Exhibition "Vanishing Africa. Light and Shadows of Kazimir Zagursky"

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18.06.2026 · 00:00
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Moscow
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The photographs of Kazimir Zagursky weave a narrative about Central Africa in the first half of the 20th century and about a man caught between several worlds. Nearly three hundred images showcase the traditions and everyday life of the region. Behind this story lies the fate of a Russian military pilot who found himself far from his former life after the revolution. At the age of 40, Kazimir Zagursky swapped his military career for photography and began working in Belgian Congo, observing the cultures of the Congo River basin, Rwanda, Burundi, and Kenya. His camera captured a complex world where the familiar order clashed with the pressures of European politics and colonial reality. The main part of the author's legacy is the series "Vanishing Africa." In the black-and-white frames, there is movement, pauses, a careful eye for detail, a sense of personal presence, and an attempt to capture on film what was changing too quickly. The photographs are significant as ethnographic testimony and artistic expression. Zagursky does not turn people into nameless types: he seeks a face, a gesture, a pause, a state. The exhibition allows viewers to see Africa of the 1920s-1940s through the lens of an émigré, a collector of impressions, and a photographer who tried to find his place in an era of great upheavals. Where to go in Moscow on weekends, KUDAGO will suggest.

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