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The Fund Forum of Culture and Arts of Uzbekistan and the Academy of Arts of Uzbekistan invited photographers of different genres and styles, as well as representatives of photographic societies and organizations, to participate in the VI-th Tashkent International Photo Biennale. The theme of Biennale is “I am the world and world in me.” This subject allows  authors to express their understanding of a human being’s place in the world and his attitude towards it. It allows participants to discover their inner world and the world of their heroes, as well as to understand the affect of the nature and social environment on person and his feelings and thoughts.

Fifteen photographers in 6 categories have been honored with diplomas and prizes at an awards ceremony in the Central Showroom in Tashkent.

The Sixth Tashkent International Biennale featured over 1,500 works by over 200 artists from 35 countries. Split into 28 exhibitions, the Biennale was attended by over 10,000 people.

The Photo Biennale included 4 workshops by foremost international photographers: Paolo Roversi (France), Gueorgui Pinkhassov (France); Irina Mikhaylova (Russia) Naoyuki Ogino (Japan) and Aitor Lara (Spain).

Also, the Tashkent House of Photography hosted a conference titled ‘Photo Art: the Past, the Present, the Future’.

Technique: Recycled electric cable, banner. Dimensions: Cable Flowers – 30x5x5cm

Recycled electric cable looks to me like a stem of a flower. I would like to make them blooming like orchids, tulips, callas flowers. There is a “garden” of cables behind my monitor, printer, scanner and all my other equipment on my desk. I discovered that from the cables I can create some flower objects. I show the transformation for the cables to bloom in to a flower using the photography. In my photographs there are stories about silhouettes of flowers as a metaphor for human feelings.

Workshop “Abfall. Zufall. Einfall.” – “Trash. Chance. Idea” was designed to provide artists in particular and also experts in the environmental area with the possibility to ‘put the process in motion’ regarding the subjects: waste, waste reduction and recycling, in theoretical and practical papers.

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Flowers and smoke in my photos are metaphors to speak about eternity. In some people smoke may bring recollections of candles burnt at churches in prayers for the living or dead. Smoke symbolizes time – a brief moment and it has vanished.

It’s only the fruit of the viewers’ imagination. Like a child imagines a familiar silhouettes in shapes of clouds.”

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