Open Theme nominee

As one of my core interests in photography is the feeling of time, since 2014 I have been photographing history fans known as re-enactors. One of the most important directions of their activities in Russia is the re-enactment of the battle of Borodino (1812), which happened during the Russian campaign of Napoleon.

By means of photography I try to research how deep you can actually go in this game of time, how well you can hide yourself and modernity, how good you can fool the time and where the time borders are.

The black and white images hide the "inappropriate" contemporary objects and imply more effort from the viewer to distinguish between history and modernity. Some images are "cured" from contemporary objects, the others are "infected".

This project was first presented in Moscow at the Fashion and Style in Photography Biennale in Spring 2017 - as online-art www.time.gordasevich.ru.

Focus in photography: documentary\daily life. Regular participation in the international photography festivals Photobiennale & Fashion and Style in Photography in Moscow, Russia. Individual photography exhibitions: “Hill Tribes of Thailand”, “The Other Side of China”, “Calligraphy”, “Tutaev”, “Couples”, “Paris”, “14 Pieces of India” (for Leica Russia); “Lord Shiva’s Necklace”, “Cuba: Weathered Signs” by Glaz Gallery in Moscow, “La Habana: Portraits on the Road” and others. Participation in the projects “Photochronicle of Russia” and “Russian Vision of Europe” (by Moscow House of Photography). Participation in the “PhotoVacancy” festival in Bulgaria. Four nominations in the photographic competition “Silver camera”, Moscow. The first Russian photographer to have put on an individual exhibition with Leica in Russia –“14 Pieces of India”. His works are in the MAMM (Multimedia Art Museum Moscow) collection and in private collections in Russia and abroad. Lectures and seminars on photography for MAMM, MGU (Moscow State University), RGGU (Russian State University for Humanities), Leica Akademie Russland, Canon, Panasonic, Fujifilm, Kodak-Prolab, Academy of Classic Photography, School of Visual Arts, and others. Photography-with-Music performances (live music improvisation to accompany photographic slide-shows) with Alex Rostotsky (bass), Sergey Letov (saxophones, flutes), Maral Yakshieva (piano), Neil Leonard (saxophones), Yuri Parfenov (trumpet), and others.