Material Evidence
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Material Evidence (Russian: Вещдоки) is an international exhibition first presented in Russia in 2013[1][2] by Vladislav Shurigin and Denis Tukmakov with direct financial support from Zhurnalistskaya Pravda (Journalistic Truth), a Moscow-based newspaper,[3][unreliable source?] indirectly financed by Internet Research Agency.[4] Both Shurigin and Tukmakov are authors of for far right magazine Zavtra, members of the National Bolshevik Party[3][unreliable source?] and nationalist Izborsk Club.[5] The exhibition displays a strongly anti-Western and pro-Russian view on civil conflicts in Syria, Ukraine, Iraq and Afghanistan.[6][dead link] It is advertised as an "evidence of USA aggression"[1] and the section on Ukraine describes the events of surrounding Euromaidan as an "upsurge of nationalist-banderite groups" and the War in Donbas as "opposition against banderites and Western Oligarchs".[7][dead link]
Layout
[edit | edit source]Photo exhibition is based on the material submitted by war correspondents illustrating countries where civil conflicts take place,[8] including Andrey Stenin who died near Donetsk. The exhibition's original curator in Europe, Benjamin Hiller, is a German freelance photographer and journalist who works mainly on conflict photography in hotspots such as Syria and Ukraine.
Locations
[edit | edit source]The exhibition was held in a number of Russian, European, and American cities including Moscow, Ufa,[8][9][10] Grozny, Brussels, Berlin,[11] New York City. It is planned to hold the exhibition in Los Angeles and Washington, as well as Canada.[12]
Reactions
[edit | edit source]According to organizers, over 50 thousand people have visited the galleries.[13]
While it was on display in New York City the exhibition was attacked and vandalized by group of people who Hiller claimed were neo-Nazis upset with Hiller's negative representation of Ukraine.[14] As a result, some pictures had been defaced with black paint.[15]
Funding and controversies
[edit | edit source]The exhibit has become controversial due to its ties to Russian extremist newspaper Zavtra and its connection to a widespread Russian propaganda content farm network.[16] In an article by Gawker, according to the assistant curator of the New York exhibit "in Berlin, a "silent guy" visited, told the organizers he liked what he saw, then left. Later, he came back with a bag of cash and dropped it for them with no explanation."[16] Russian state-sponsored company Internet Research Agency is among the main sponsors of the exhibition.[4]
The organizers are also offering financial grants of 10-20,000 euro for journalists.[17]
See also
[edit | edit source]- Media portrayal of the Russo-Ukrainian War
- Internet Research Agency
- Andrey Stenin
- Syrian Civil War
- War correspondent
References
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