Fri, Mar 04, 2011
North-Eastern Federal University opens “The Arctic in the camera objective” exhibition at the “Urgel” Art gallery
On March 1st, the
first day of spring, the Department of Northern Studies of the North-Eastern Federal
University (Yakutsk, Russia)
opened a photo exhibition “The Arctic in the camera objective”. The Department
of Northern Studies is a young department of NEFU established in 2008.
The authors of the presented
photographs are students, the Department specialists and international students
who had practical training and internship at the Department of Northern
Studies.
The photo works of the department specialists Viktor Tomsky, Irina Dranaeva, Larisa Shelokhovskaya are on the main site of the exhibition and present beautiful nature of Yakutia, Karelia, Murmansk region and the Greenland sea area: landscape, people, northern cultures, unique flora and fauna. It is remarkable that Irina and Larisa are young specialists of the Department who were on exchange within “North2North” student mobility program in Norway and Sweden.
Organizers say that the peculiarity of the photo exhibition "Arctic in the camera objective" is that works are represented by students who participated in the “North2North” student mobility program. The visitors admired the northern life and landscape and noted the fresh look of the works.
International students of the Department- Jennan Ferguson, Ph.D student from the University of Aberdeen (Great Britain), Tanja Litmanen, Master of Geography at the University of Turku (Finland), Lea Silto, Bachelor of Geography at the University of Turku (Finland), Tuomas Suutarinen, graduate student at the University of Helsinki (Finland) who also had practical training at the Department showed the beauty of nature of South Yakutia and central regions of the Republic.
The photo works of the department specialists Viktor Tomsky, Irina Dranaeva, Larisa Shelokhovskaya are on the main site of the exhibition and present beautiful nature of Yakutia, Karelia, Murmansk region and the Greenland sea area: landscape, people, northern cultures, unique flora and fauna. It is remarkable that Irina and Larisa are young specialists of the Department who were on exchange within “North2North” student mobility program in Norway and Sweden.
Organizers say that the peculiarity of the photo exhibition "Arctic in the camera objective" is that works are represented by students who participated in the “North2North” student mobility program. The visitors admired the northern life and landscape and noted the fresh look of the works.
International students of the Department- Jennan Ferguson, Ph.D student from the University of Aberdeen (Great Britain), Tanja Litmanen, Master of Geography at the University of Turku (Finland), Lea Silto, Bachelor of Geography at the University of Turku (Finland), Tuomas Suutarinen, graduate student at the University of Helsinki (Finland) who also had practical training at the Department showed the beauty of nature of South Yakutia and central regions of the Republic.