BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//GayOut//Event Export//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VEVENT UID:205159@gayout.com DTSTAMP:20260826T140500Z DTSTART:20260915T190000Z DTEND:20260915T213000Z SUMMARY:Exhibition opening “\\;In the Shadow of Big Brother”\\; : Photography by Olga Ignatovich from the Arthur Bondar’s collection DESCRIPTION:Аn exhibition of war photographs by Olga Ignatovich from the collection of Arthur Bondar. At PANDA platforma\\, we are able to show o nly a small portion of the recently discovered archive. Arthur BondarR 17\\;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 Brigad e’\\;\\, an essentially independent photographic agency established in 1932 by Olga’\\;s elder brother\\, the celebrated photographer Bo ris Ignatovich — were signed\\, until the late 1930s\\, simply as ̵ 6\\;Ignatovich’\\;\\, without any forename\\, as were the works of B oris and Olga’\\;s younger sisters — Elizaveta\\, Arkadia\\, and E lena. It is to the restoration of a name\\, to the restoration of memory\ \, to the candid gaze of Olga Ignatovich\\, that this exhibition is dedic ated.\\n \\;\\n \\n \\n \\n \\n \\n \\n \\n \\n \\n \\;\\nO lga Vsevolodovna Ignatovich (July 24\\, 1905 – March 21\\, 1984)\\nAcco rding to some sources\\, Olga Vsevolodovna Ignatovich was born in the cit y 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 Sov iet photojournalist and experimentalist in the field of the visual langua ge of photography\\, Boris Vsevolodovich Ignatovich. Together with her br other\\, she worked at the newspaper “Bednota” and the magazine “Na rpit”\\, and from the mid-1930s\\, at the newspaper “Vechernyaya Mosk va”. Olga was a member of the “Ignatovich Brigade” at Soyuzfoto. Bo ris also encouraged his two other sisters to take up photography\\, but o nly Olga demonstrated outstanding talent.\\nWhen German troops began thei r invasion of Soviet territory\\, Olga Ignatovich enlisted in the Red Arm y in November 1941 as a war photojournalist. From the very first months o f the war\\, she served as a photojournalist for the Soviet front-line ne wspaper “Boevoye Znamya” of the 30th Army\\, which was reorganized in April 1943 into the 10th Guards Army (part of the Kalinin Front). In lat e 1943\\, Olga Vsevolodovna was assigned to the editorial staff of the ne wspaper “For the Honor of the Motherland” of the newly formed 1st Ukr ainian Front. As a photojournalist for this newspaper\\, Olga Ignatovich documented the final two years of the war.\\nAmong Olga Ignatovich’s mo st notable war photography works are: a series of photographs from libera ted Rzhev\\, which she entered with units of the 30th Army (March 3\\, 19 43)\\, a series of photographs of famous pilots on the Kalinin Front (194 2)\\, and the Red Army’s advance westward under the command of Marshals Zhukov and Konev (1944–45). A separate chapter in Olga Ignatovich’s photographic legacy is her special assignment to photograph the German de ath camps of Majdanek (1944) and Auschwitz-Birkenau (1945)\\, which had j ust been liberated by the Red Army. For a long time\\, the authorship of the world-famous photographs titled “The Liberation of Auschwitz” was attributed to Olga’s brother\\, Boris Ignatovich. The photographs take n by Olga Ignatovich at the Auschwitz death camp served as the basis for awarding Lieutenant Olga Ignatovich the Order of the Red Star. The photog raphs she took in the concentration camps were included in the materials of the Nuremberg Trials.\\nAfter the war ended\\, Olga Vsevolodovna conti nued her work for about another year\\, photographing the Red Army in Vie nna\\, where the headquarters of the 1st Ukrainian Front\\, reorganized i nto the Central Group of Forces\\, was located.\\nBut while we know quite a lot about Olga Ignatovich’s military career\\, very little informati on has survived about her postwar life. After her demobilization\\, Olga Ignatovich worked at Sovinformburo\\, and from 1961 onward\\, she continu ed her work at the Novosti Press Agency. From the late 1960s\\, she was a n employee of the “Soviet Artist” publishing house. There are many ga ps in Olga Vsevolodovna’s postwar biography\\; there is no information about her final years\\, the exact date of her death\\, or even her buria l site.\\nMost of Olga Ignatovich’s photographic archive for many years was considered to be lost until it was recently discovered by photograph er and collector Artur Bondar. Bondar also managed to find the grave of O lga Ignatovich\\, who died on March 21\\, 1984\\, and was buried at the K himki Cemetery in Moscow.\\n \\;\\nArthur Bondar (1983\\, Ukraine) photographer\\, visual artist\\, publisher and collector. He works on h is personal documentary and art projects that are centered around the the mes of historical events\\, collective and private memories. He creates m ixed media artworks\\, installations\\, documentary and conceptual works. Arthur has graduated from the Photography and Human Rights course of New York University. He was awarded with National Geographic Grant (2011)\\, Magnum Emergency Fund (2012)\\, The Documentary Project Fund (2013)\\, t he Best Photographer in Ukraine (2013) and Allard Prize (2016). He was no minated for the Foam Paul Huf Award and the Prix Pictet Award (2016).\\nH is projects were exhibited as installations and exhibitions in different art institutions worldwide. Arthur cooperates with numerous international magazines\\, newspapers and online media. He is the author of 8 photoboo ks\\, among them: “Shadows of Wormwood”\\, “Signatures of War”\\, “Barricade: The Euromaidan Revolt”\\, “Valery Faminsky V.1945”\\ , “\\;The Verge”\\;\\, “Olga Ignatovich. In the Shadow of the Big Brother”.\\nFor many years Arthur Bondar has been collecting unkno wn WWII negatives all over the world\\, exploring and systematizing these historically unique and important documentary evidences. This collection consists of more than 15000 unknown visual evidences and different objec ts. Arthur Bondar exposes these historical heritage as complex projects a nd exhibitions with a different art and documentary approach\\, that allo ws us to look at WWII history from different perspectives. \\nhttps://ww w.gayout.com/europe/germany/berlin/events/exhibition-opening-8220-in-the- shadow-of-big-brother-8221-photography-by-olga-ignatovich-from-the-arthur -bondar-s-collection-2026-09-15 LOCATION:panda-platforma.berlin URL:https://www.gayout.com/europe/germany/berlin/events/exhibition-opening-8220-in-the-shadow-of-big-brother-8221-photography-by-olga-ignatovich-from-the-arthur-bondar-s-collection-2026-09-15 STATUS:CONFIRMED END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR