Ruggero Maggi and the group Matera International Photography have started a call dedicated to the Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny (1976 – 2024) who was killed in the infamou “Polar Wolf” prison in Kharp on 16 February 2024.
They state:
“One cannot look, know and turn away. Reacting is a moral obligation for everyone. (…) The ordeal Navalny has had to endure leaves one speechless. The truth wil be known sooner or later, but the responsibility for what happened is certain. He died in the IK-3 maximum security prison in Kharp, after three years of suffering and torture. He was kept in a rigorous prison, in an isolation cell, a concrete box a room of 6/7 square metres where there is nothing except a stool, a sink, a hole in the floor and a bed that is attached to the wall to prevent lying down, a glass, a book, a toothbrush. Nothing else. (…)
Sometimes absence screams more than presence.”
Exhibition in Milan
The call’s theme is Navalny: Absende/Presence. Please send a postcard (10.5×15 cm) by September 15 with your work in any technique you like to:
Ruggero Maggi
Corso Sempione 67
20149 Milano Italy
If you send your work from outside of Europe, please stete on the envelope: No commercial value document / documento senza valore commerciale.
The exhibition wil take place in November 2024 in Matera.
The works will remain in Ruggero Maggi’s Amazon Archive or at any other entity that will be deemed appropriate.
The Movie
Navalny is a 2022 American documentary film directed by Daniel Roher. The film revolves around Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny and events related to his poisoning. It was produced by HBO Max and CNN Films.
Credits
The photo on top of the page shows Navalny on 26 March 2017 at a rally in Moscow. The photograph is CC 4.0 by Evgeny Feldman / Wikimedia Commons.
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