{"id":25006,"date":"2026-04-13T15:42:30","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T12:42:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lndm.devmerit.com\/radvilu-rumu-dailes-muziejus\/renginiai\/international-academic-symposium-amateur-photo-clubs-in-the-ussr-and-the-satellite-countries-during-the-1950s-1980s\/"},"modified":"2026-04-13T15:42:30","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T12:42:30","slug":"international-academic-symposium-amateur-photo-clubs-in-the-ussr-and-the-satellite-countries-during-the-1950s-1980s","status":"publish","type":"renginys","link":"https:\/\/lndm.devmerit.com\/en\/radvila-palace-museum-of-art\/events\/international-academic-symposium-amateur-photo-clubs-in-the-ussr-and-the-satellite-countries-during-the-1950s-1980s\/","title":{"rendered":"International academic symposium \u201c’Amateur’ Photo Clubs in the USSR and the Satellite Countries During the 1950s-1980s\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Radvila Palace Museum of Art of the LNMA and the Museum of Kharkiv School of Photography invite you to participate in the international academic symposium \u201c’Amateur’ Photo Clubs in the USSR and the Satellite Countries During the 1950s-1980s\u201d<\/em>,<\/em> which will take place at the Radvila Palace Museum of Art on April 24\u201325.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Open to the public, the symposium examines amateur photo clubs as sites of artistic experimentation and nonconformist practice within socialist cultural infrastructures. The programme features eighteen scholars from across Central and Eastern Europe, with a keynote lecture by Dr Jessica Werneke (University of Iowa, USA).<\/p>\n

The symposium accompanies the exhibition \u201cUkrainian Dreamers: The Kharkiv School of Photography\u201d<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

Admission free, registration required: REGISTRATION FORM<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

‘Amateur’ Photo Clubs in the USSR and the Satellite Countries During the 1950s\u20131980s Symposium Programme<\/h6>\n

April 24, Friday<\/strong><\/p>\n

9.00\u20139.30<\/strong><\/p>\n

Registration\/Welcome address<\/p>\n

9.30\u201310.00<\/strong><\/p>\n

Presentation 1<\/p>\n

Hennadiy Kazakevych (Ukraine). \u201cAdapting Technologies: Camera Production and Amateur Photography in the Ukrainian SSR\u201d<\/p>\n

10.00\u201310.30<\/strong><\/p>\n

Presentation 2<\/p>\n

Anastasiya Kholyavka (Ukraine). \u201cArtels of Photographers in Postwar Lviv: Amateurs within the Professional Network\u201d<\/p>\n

10.30\u201310.45<\/strong><\/p>\n

Q&A to Session 1<\/p>\n

10.45\u201311.00<\/strong><\/p>\n

Coffee break<\/p>\n

11.00\u201311.30<\/strong><\/p>\n

Presentation 3<\/p>\n

Uschi Klein (Hungary). \u201cCloser to humanity rather than the \u201cNew Man\u201d: the Marosvasarhely Photo Club during the communist regime in Romania\u201d<\/p>\n

11.30\u201312.00<\/strong><\/p>\n

Presentation 4<\/p>\n

Ji\u0159i Patek (Czechia), \u201cAmateur photography in the former Czechoslovakia\u201d<\/p>\n

12.00\u201312.30<\/strong><\/p>\n

Q&A to Session 2<\/p>\n

12.30\u201314:00<\/strong><\/p>\n

Lunch break<\/p>\n

14.00\u201314.30<\/strong><\/p>\n

Presentation 5<\/p>\n

Mihailo Vasiljevi\u0107 (Serbia). \u201c\u0410 Critical History of Organized Amateur Photographic Practice as a Framework of Institutionalization of Photography in Serbia after 1946\u201d<\/p>\n

14.30\u201315.00<\/strong><\/p>\n

Presentation 6<\/p>\n

Tomas Pabedinskas (Lithuania). \u201cThe Significance of Kaunas Photo club for the Development of Lithuanian Photography: Institutional and Creative Aspects\u201d<\/p>\n

15.00\u201315.30<\/strong><\/p>\n

Q&A to Session 3<\/p>\n

15.30\u201315.45<\/strong><\/p>\n

Coffee break<\/p>\n

15.45\u201316.15<\/strong><\/p>\n

Presentation 7<\/p>\n

Miko\u0142aj Chmieli\u0144ski (Poland). \u201cExercises in \u201copening one\u2019s eyes wide\u201d. Photography events for youth organized by the Warsaw\u2019s 6×6 Club in the 1970s.\u201d<\/p>\n

16.15\u201316.45<\/strong><\/p>\n

Presentation 8<\/p>\n

Baiba Tetere (Latvia). \u201cLiep\u0101ja People\u2019s Photo Studio FOTAST: The Analog Photography<\/p>\n

Archive as a Resource\u201d<\/p>\n

16.45\u201317.15<\/strong><\/p>\n

Q&A to Session 4<\/p>\n

17.15\u201317.30<\/strong><\/p>\n

Break<\/p>\n

17.30\u201318.30<\/strong><\/p>\n

Keynote lecture<\/p>\n

Jessica M. Werneke (USA). \u201cThe Intersections Between Amateurism and Authority: Unique Developments in Eastern European and Soviet Photography\u201d<\/p>\n

April 25, Saturday<\/strong><\/p>\n

9.00\u20139.30<\/strong><\/p>\n

Presentation 1<\/p>\n

Sandra Kri\u017ei\u0107 Roban (Croatia). \u201cThe Third Way: The Position of Women in Photo Clubs in Postwar Yugoslavia\u201d<\/p>\n

9.30\u201310.00<\/strong><\/p>\n

Presentation 2<\/p>\n

Kamila Dworniczak (Poland). \u201cPhotography as a space for relationships and emancipation. Dialogue between Zofia Rydet and Krystyna \u0141yczywek\u201d<\/p>\n

10.00\u201310.30<\/strong><\/p>\n

Presentation 3<\/p>\n

Indrek Grigor (Estonia). \u201cThe Queue. An Episode in Tartu\u2019s Photographic History\u201d<\/p>\n

10.30\u201311.00<\/strong><\/p>\n

Q&A to Session 1<\/p>\n

11.00\u201311.15<\/strong><\/p>\n

Coffee break<\/p>\n

11.15\u201311.45<\/strong><\/p>\n

Presentation 4<\/p>\n

Timea-Andrada Toth (Romania). \u201cResistance through the female lens \u2013 The case of Hedy Loffler and her work during the communist regime in Romania\u201d<\/p>\n

11.45\u201312.15<\/strong><\/p>\n

Presentation 5<\/p>\n

Kateryna Volochniuk (Ukraine). \u201cRethinking the Factory Photographer: Public Function, Private Practice\u201d<\/p>\n

12.15\u201312.45<\/strong><\/p>\n

Q&A to Session 2<\/p>\n

12.45\u201314.15<\/strong><\/p>\n

Lunch break<\/p>\n

14.15\u201314.45<\/strong><\/p>\n

Presentation 6<\/p>\n

Tetiana Pavlova (Ukraine). \u201cVremya Group: a scenario of a great leap and an eternal return to the Club’s lost orbit\u201d<\/p>\n

14.45\u201315.15<\/strong><\/p>\n

Presentation 7<\/p>\n

Valeria Pitenina (Ukraine). \u201cUkrainian photography in Polish magazines in the 1970s\u201d<\/p>\n

15.15\u201315.45<\/strong><\/p>\n

Q&A to Session 3<\/p>\n

15.45\u201316.00<\/strong><\/p>\n

Coffee break<\/p>\n

16.00\u201316.30<\/strong><\/p>\n

Presentation 8<\/p>\n

Halyna Hleba (Ukraine). \u201cMarlen Matus and the \u201cDnipro\u201d Photo Club: Amateur Photography in the Structure of a Closed Soviet City\u201d<\/p>\n

16.30\u201316.45<\/strong><\/p>\n

Presentation 9<\/p>\n

Kateryna Filyuk (Ukraine). \u201cDark Matter\u201d of Late Soviet Photography: The Viewpoint <\/em>Creative Photographic Association\u201d<\/p>\n

16.45\u201317.30<\/strong><\/p>\n

Presentaion 10<\/p>\n

Anna Smyrnova (Ukraine). \u201cThe Semafor Amateur Photo Club and the Artistic Experiments of Vil\u2019 Furgalo in Lviv, 1950s\u20131985\u201d<\/p>\n

17.30\u201318.30<\/strong><\/p>\n

Q&A to Session 4 and final remarks<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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