Catalog of the photo exhibition “Moment of Heritage – 2021”

© Sergei Shchekotov-Alexandrov, 2023

ISBN 978-5-0060-8879-5

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Making photos has numerous functions in our lives. One of them is the photographic documentation of cultural heritage objects and landmarks. Making photos of UNESCO monuments can be called a particularly significant part of this area. The photo exhibition «An Instant of Heritage 2021» shows author’s photographs of cultural heritage objects of three countries: Russia, Italy and the United States. A documentary photographer from St.Petersburg, Sergei Shchekotov-Aleksandrov, and his camera visited the Russian cities of Murom and Veliky Novgorod, St. Petersburg and Peterhof; the Italian city of Florence and in the city of Julian in the USA.

About the Author

Sergey Shchekotov-Aleksandrov is an independent documentary photographer born in 1960 in Yekaterinburg. He has been living in St.Petersburg since 2014. He graduated from the Ural State University (Journalism Department) in 1989. Sergey specializes in photography of non-material and material culture, nature and everyday life, urban landscapes, museum institutions. He is a member of the Union of Journalists of St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region, a member of the Creative Union «Photo Art» (Moscow), has a blog «What do we know about Worldpressphoto», the channel «Kilometers of photographic roads» on «Yandex. Zen.» Sergey is an author and curator of various traveling photo exhibitions and documentary photography events held in different years in some regions of Russia (Sverdlovsk region, Nizhny Novgorod region, Vladimir region and others). Among them: «Photokaleidoscope: 150 Years of Photography», «Simple and Complex Impressions», «Photo studio Free Theme Plus Nature», «Silent Moscow», «India. Light and Stone», «White Color», «Open Air Museum – the City of St. Petersburg», «Cultural Monuments and Museums» and others. Photographer’s website: shchekotovphoto.ucoz.net.