Catalog of the photo exhibition «Moment of Heritage — 2022»
Photographing in the life of people performs various functions. One of them is photodocumentation of cultural heritage monuments and sights. Photography of UNESCO monuments can be called a particularly significant activity in this area.
The photo exhibition «Moment of Heritage — 2022» shows author’s photographs (photo stories) of cultural heritage monuments of three countries: Russia, the USA and Great Britain. Petersburg photographer Sergey Shchekotov-Aleksandrov visited Volgograd, St. Petersburg, San Diego (USA), London (Great Britain) with his camera.
The photo exhibition includes a section of single author’s photographs about cultural heritage from Russia, Turkey, Austria, India, and the Czech Republic. These photographs were shown by the photographer at previous photo exhibitions and photo evenings of the «Moment of Heritage» cycle (St. Petersburg).
About the author
Sergey Shchekotov-Aleksandrov is an independent documentary photographer. Lives and works in St. Petersburg. Specializes in filming non-material and material culture, nature and everyday life, landscapes of the urban environment, museum institutions. Author and curator of numerous traveling photo exhibitions in the regions of Russia. Leads the author’s channel on Yandex Zen «Kilometers of photographic roads». Since 2021 he has been a member of the Royal Photographic Society of Great Britain. S. I. Shchekotov-Aleksandrov publishes author’s books. In 2020, the book «Kilometers of Photographic Roads» was published, in 2021 — «Photographing Cultural Heritage».
Author’s website: http://shchekotovphoto.ucoz.net/
About the project
The cycle of photo events «Moment of Heritage» is a program of the photography studio of S. I. Shchekotov-Aleksandrov to popularize outstanding cultural heritage sites and UNESCO sites in Russia and other countries.
This program is carried out through traveling photo exhibitions and photography evenings in various libraries in St. Petersburg.
The current photo event is the seventh in a row. The main event is a photo exhibition, which consists of three sections:
• «Russian monuments of culture and history» (two photo stories);
• «Foreign monuments of culture and history» (two photo stories);
• «From the Photographer’s Archive» (single photographs about cultural heritage based on materials from past photo exhibitions).
