The Great Purge

Meeting with Tomasz Kizny and Dominique Roynette
Thursday June 4, 2015 - 7 PM

Alekseï Grigorievitch Jeltikov et Marfa Ilinitchna Riazantseva

Archives centrales FSB et Archives nationales de la Fédération de Russie GARF, Moscou, copies publiées à partir des archives de l’Association internationale Memorial.

Portraits of convicted of state crime persons.

USSR 1937-1938. During 16 months, 1,7 million of soviet citizens are shooted or deported to gulag.

 

This mass murder, one of the greatest state slaughter perpetrated against its own people is organized par Joseph Staline. Arrested people are systematically photographed in profile and full-face in accordance with the ID photography norms established by Alphonse Bertillon. Thus, a collection of ID photos of thousands of victims is secretly formed. Till nowadays, the role of photography in the relentless process of extermination is problematic. From 2008 to 2011, Tomasz Kizny gained a restraint but exceptional access to the NKVD secret files. He made a photographic work which presents a topography of terror : Reproduction of convicted persons portraits, of execution place and mass grave, photographs of the close family members, found remains.

 

Biography

Polish journalist and photographer

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