Nikolay Endegor. "Unmodern photography"

The Erarta Museum presents an exhibition of photographs by Nikolai Endegard - a retrospective of the 15-year French period of the author's work.

Doctor of Technical Sciences, author of monographs and scientific articles on data analysis and automatic pattern recognition, Nikolai Endegor discovered photography in 2005. In an effort to reveal the deep kinship of the living and the inanimate, Endegor turned to the basis of photography - light painting. In his photographs, people and objects are equally spiritualized, inextricably linked with each other, and the urban space, like living nature, flows, refracts, bends.

In the author's lens, architecture begins to breathe, begins to move, inanimate objects are filled with eroticism, a special attraction. This effect is born from the emphasized natural curvature of forms, their fractality, which the photographer subtly notes: like is based on like and multiplies to infinity. The stairwells are twisted by Endegor into Mobius bands - probably, this is how the architects of modernity once conceived them. Sensual sculptures of the late 18th century bloom with real flesh: the author continues to speak where the masters of the past once stopped.

Many of the photographer's works are reminiscent of exercises in classical composition: as if he again and again returned to the exhibition halls that amazed him in his youth. A scientist and a man of the XXI century is looking for a sense of Renaissance harmony. His photograph has a special musicality: here the rhythm is set by the contrast of light and shadow, and the line turns into a melody.