Scandal at the National Museum Taras Shevchenko. The other day in the hall with photos of World Press Photo 2023, where in particular, photos about the war in Ukraine were presented, and a yoga class was held. Case actively discussed in the Network, reacted and adviser to the mayor of Mariupol – Peter Andryushchenko, reports UNN.
Taras Shevchenko Museum. Nothing like that. Just yoga on the background of tragic photos Mariupol from Evgeny Maloletka. I can assume, what the visitors didn't know. The coach didn't think about it and the goal was good. But someone in the museum definitely organized it first an exhibition of photos, and then decided to allow yoga there. Shamefacedly hanging rags photo. It's just some kind of an endless stream of Sur around Mariupol.
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Taras museum guide Shevchenko agreed with one of the capital's fitness clubs to hold a class on yogis on the first floor in the hall, where photos of the winners ' work are actually displayed World Press Photo, including the world-famous photo of a pregnant woman from Mariupol.
Yoga class held in the morning, before the opening of the museum, and the exhibits themselves were covered with rags. Ukrainians in the network are outraged this attitude to war/
I didn't believe for a long time that they would do it, but they did. Yoga was held, photos from Mariupol were covered up. I don't know who is worse in this situation - a fitness club or a museum.
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Photo Exhibition World Press Photo 2023, where works from 23 countries of the world that won the international competition are presented the competition opened at the Taras Shevchenko National Museum on November 8. Among the exhibited photos, including the work of Ukrainian photographer Yevhen Maloletka. "Airstrike Maternity Hospital in Mariupol", which actually became the global winner of the current year the contest.
This photo The youngster filmed during his stay in the encircled city in March 2022 year. In photo, Irina Kalinina is wounded. It is taken out from the Maternity Hospital in Mariupol, destroyed due to an airstrike by the Russians son Irina was born dead, and in half an hour the woman herself died. According to the jury, the photo depicts an encroachment on the future of Ukraine.
War in Ukraine, it was also reflected in other photographs winners of the contest. In "wounds of war" by Emilio Morenati ("Honorary Award") we are talking about people who have undergone amputation of limbs as a result of Russian invasion of Ukraine, and photo "Yana and Victoria" by Alkisa Kostantinidisa ("separate photo") recorded Jana Bacek crying over the body of Viktor's father, who died during the shelling of Kharkiv.