Fall 2012: 'Magadan: The People and the Place'
by Ted Kincaid |
Reception: Monday, Oct. 1, 3-5 p.m.
UAA/APU Consortium Library, Room 307 (Lew Haines Meeting Room)
Chancellor Tom Case invites the Anchorage community to the opening of a special exhibit
titled "Magadan: The People and the Place." This is an exhibit of photographs by internationally
known photographers Pavel Zhdanov and Andrey Osipov and "is dedicated to all those
people in Magadan and Alaska who gave unselfishly of themselves to the melting of
the Ice Curtain that separated us during the Cold War."
Magadan, a sister city to Anchorage, is located on the Sea of Okhotsk in the Russian
Far East. It is the economic, scientific, educational, health care and cultural center
of the Kolyma Region. The region is rich in natural resources and its economy is centered
on gold mining, commercial fishing and energy production.
The exhibit will be on display through January 15, 2013.
About the photographers:
Pavel Zhdanov was born in a town near Tula in Central Russia. In 1963 he moved with his parents
to Northeastern Russia. In 1981 he graduated from the Magadan State Pedagogical Institute,
where he studied in the Department of Russian Language and Literature. After graduation
he held various teaching positions in communities in the Kolyma and Chukotka. His
first publications appeared in 1978, but it wasn't until the year 2000 that he chose
publishing as his career. He was the editor-in-chief of Magadan Airlines' in-flight
magazine "Sputnik," and in 2001 he became the director of the publishing house Okhotnik.
Pavel's writings and photographs have appeared in numerous photographic albums, book
and booklets, as well as in local and Russian Far East magazines and newspapers, such
as "The World of the North," "Magadanskaya Pravda," "Far Eastern Capital" and others.
Over the past nine years, Okhotnik has produced numerous books and photo albums. He
works together with Moscow and Far Eastern publishing houses. He has been practicing
photography since he was 12 years old.
Andrey Osipov was born in Magadan. At age 12 he was enrolled in the Art and Computer Department
of the Magadan Children's Art School. He graduated from the Northeastern State University
in Magadan with a degree in management. In 2004 he began working as the art director
of the publishing house Okhotnik. His work takes him all over the Magadan Region.
His books, booklets and brochures can be found at the Scott Polar Research Institute
Library, Cambridge University, the Russian State Library in Moscow and the Magadan
Pushkin Scientific Library. Every year his work wins prizes at the Far Eastern Book
Fair, and his photographs are published in Moscow, St. Petersburg, Kaluga, Khabarovsk
and Magadan. He has been practicing photography since he was 17.
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