At the contemporary photography exhibition “Kontur. Photo” in Nizhny Novgorod, the works of dozens of authors were censored, the agency reported, citing the exhibition’s participants.
The day before, photographer Alexander Gronsky said his work was on display at Contour. photo,” before the opening of the exhibition, they covered it with tracing paper and banned the sale at the request of “severe men in jackets.” According to the agency, by the evening of May 15, the photographer’s photographs had been dismantled.
Blogger Igor Galenko I mentionedthat censorship was imposed on the works of 60 authors. Some were also covered with tracing paper, some were removed, and some were shifted to the front side of the wall.
One of the photographers said that the “men in jackets” were officers of the Federal Security Service. “The Federal Security Service came with a list, asked to suspend it and prevented its sale,” he told reporters, citing organizers and participants in the exhibition.
The agency’s source, familiar with the exhibition’s organizers and participants, “suddenly heard” that “those who signed some kind of open letter at the beginning of the war” were being censored. [против войны в Украине]Or speak out against the fighting.
father Data BBC Russian Service Art galleries in Russia are monitored by the Directorate for the Protection of the Constitutional Order of the Second Service of the Federal Security Service. They compile lists of people banned from exhibiting and whose exhibitions of their work should be removed or censored. One of the criteria for inclusion in the “black lists” is anti-war statements.