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will just copy and translate the post from lj.
(c) picture by Leonid Tishkov.

Wont miss the whole but still. another amazing event currently in Moscow-city which i dont have a chance to reach.
Yeap, im talking about '8th Moscow Photo-Biennale'.
which as usual impresses with its scale. And this time it means that for the next 4 months on tens of spots throughout the city people will talk about photography, will listen about photography on opened masterclasses, will watch movies about photography/photographers, will represent books about the same stuff. its all about art in Moscow for the next few monthes. damn it.

And as a nice tradition it will have some through inner subjects. In 2010 it's declared to be Vive la France! ('bout anything french in case it is the year of France in Russia), 'Retrospectives' (well, its clear - 'bout classics) and 'Prospects' (about teens and other youngsters, probably hipsters but i hope it wont be so at least in photography...)
So, here are my 5 choices of absolut 'must see' this time. If you can just catch the moment not to feel sorry later.

1. On the very first day of the bienale 'Moscow' house of photography' will spread its main trump - Henri Cartier-Bresson - the founder of the main European photoagency "Magnum", the greatest invisible photographer ever, the culprit of world's popularity of 'Leica' cameras and of the photojournalism' erection into the rank of true art. So, catch it as its on til 18.04
   
2. Rena Effendi - Her work focuses on themes of urbanization, post-conflict societies, and the oil industry’s effects on people’s lives. In 2004, Effendi was a winner of the “Fifty Crows” International Fund for Documentary Photography competition. In 2005 she was selected to participate in the World Press Photo Joop Swart Masterclass and recieved honourable mention in National Geographic’s “All Roads” photography competition. In 2006 Effendi was a winner of the Getty Images Editorial Photography Grant and Mario Giacomelli Memorial Fund award. In 2007, Effendi was chosen by the Photo District News magazine as one of 30 emerging photographers to watch. The same year, Effendi was selected as a finalist for the Magnum Photos Inge Morath award. (c) Amazingly powerful, but not to get things wrong id advice to try to read at least something about their war @ wiki for example. Her web-page to take a look at - is here. And here is one of her nice and extrimaly powerful interviews.
   
3. Elliott Erwitt - he is the real veteran of american reportage journalism who recorded the whole world's history of the last 50 years but in these latter days mostly takes pictures of dogs.
   
4. Antony Suau - He won a Pulitzer Prize in 1984 for his photographs of the famine in Ethiopia, the World Press Photo of the Year in 1987 for a photo taken during a demonstration in South Korea, the Robert Capa Gold medal in 1995 for his photos from Chechnya, and a second World Press Photo of the Year in 2008 for a photograph taken in Cleveland, Ohio depicting an officer securing a home under foreclosure at gun-point. (c) he even lived for a few years in Russia so i wish i could check him live 'coz hes about to come along.
5. And finally probably the best project on the whole biennale. Its called 'Mosaic'. Nearly nothing to say except its freackin' fresh and it was ordered by Ministry of culture of France to young photographers with the main subject - 'bout youth.
   

More over:
Leonid Tishkov & his project "Private moon. Trip to Paris",
theme project "Moscow-Paris",
Olivier Mirguet & others' project "In the night",
retrospective of Alexander Borodulin,
Francoise Huguier who's both a fashion and good doc. phorographer,
Valery Shekoldin - amazing russian photojournalist who knows how to get together the funniest and the saddest aspects of soviet times,
common excebition "Ten photographers. Sweden. 1958-2008",
Pierre Boulat' retrospective,p
and even Henry Cartier-Bresson's widow - Martina Frank.

amazing set. wanna be there. but screw you guys, i need to be here too.