Exhibition opening — �In the Shadow of Big Brother — �: Photography by Olga Ignatovich from the Arthur Bondar — �s collection

An exhibition of war photographs by Olga Ignatovich from the collection of Arthur Bondar. At PANDA platforma, we are able to show only a small portion of the recently discovered archive. Arthur Bondar's find is represented far more fully in a book published last year, running to nearly 500 pages, whose title has lent the exhibition its name. The photographs of Olga Ignatovich are not always easy to attribute. Her pictures — the work of a member of the ‘Ignatovich Brigade’, an essentially independent photographic agency established in 1932 by Olga’s elder brother, the celebrated photographer Boris Ignatovich — were signed, until the late 1930s, simply as ‘Ignatovich’, without any forename, as were the works of Boris and Olga’s younger sisters — Elizaveta, Arkadia, and Elena. It is to the restoration of a name, to the restoration of memory, to the candid gaze of Olga Ignatovich, that this exhibition is dedicated.

Olga Vsevolodovna Ignatovich (July 24, 1905 – March 21, 1984)
According to some sources, Olga Vsevolodovna Ignatovich was born in the city of Slutsk (Belarus); according to others, she was born in the city of Łódź (Poland) in 1905. She was the younger sister of the famous Soviet photojournalist and experimentalist in the field of the visual language of photography, Boris Vsevolodovich Ignatovich.