Alexander Gronsky »
Foam Paul Huf Award 2010
Exhibition: 27 Aug – 10 Oct 2010
Foam_Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam
Keizersgracht 609
1017 DS Amsterdam
Foam Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam
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1017 DS Amsterdam
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Foam Paul Huf Award 2010: Alexander Gronsky On 27 August an exhibition opens by the Russian photographer Alexander Gronsky (1980), winner of the Paul Huf Award 2010. This photography prize, organised by Foam, is awarded annually to an international talent under the age of 35. The prize includes an exhibition in Foam. Gronsky was awarded the prize for his post-Soviet landscape work which he made between 2007 and 2010. The exhibition features work from the series Less than One and The Edge. Less than One deals with the regions in the great expanse of Russia where the average population is less than one person per square kilometre. This series shows the signs of human presence in the omnipresent, monotonous Russian landscape. For The Edge, Gronsky stayed closer to home. This time he depicted the outskirts of Moscow, exploring both the periphery of the city and the limits of photography. All the photos were made during the long winter months and are dominated by the whiteness of the snow, which makes them seem abstract and more graphic.