Center of Photography Lumiere brothers opened on 2 March 2010 in the former confectionery factory “Red October” – the new center of the cultural life of the capital, the fashionable art spaces, where close to the main attractions of Moscow – the Kremlin and the Cathedral of Christ the Savior – are located galleries, design studios , clubs and restaurants.
The center covers more than 1,000 square meters. meters of the old mansion on Bolotnaya embankment, the facade of which looks at the Moscow River.
In addition to the three exhibition halls at the Centre has a lecture hall, a library and a bookstore.
Three spacious exhibition hall can expose more than 400 photographs.
The center operates an open library, whose mission – to collect all the best books on photography over the past 80 years.
Bookstore Center of Photography Lumiere brothers offers a wide range of constantly updated assortment of books on art and history of photography. In addition, there can be purchased photo – posters, postcards, current magazines related to art and photography.
The decision to establish the Centre took the owners ‘galleries Lumiere Brothers’ Natalia Grigorieva and Edward Litvinsky. “We need institutions that allow seriously address the legacy of the Russian and Soviet photography: show it at a high level, museum, collecting material for his study, publish books, photo albums, photo popularize, attracting renowned practitioners and academics to conduct master classes and lectures.
All photographic fund accumulated during the existence of the “Galleries of the Lumiere brothers’ will be given to the Centre. The work started 10 years ago, will continue to the next level “- so says the project Natalia Grigorieva.
Center of Photography Lumiere brothers – a platform designed to work with professional photographers, photographic collections, photo exhibitions and galleries of photographs. The Centre plans to hold exhibitions prepared by their own curators, as well as provide facilities to other interesting projects in this area.
In addition to conducting regular photographic exhibitions, the center will be engaged in teaching, research, conduct its own publishing program and form the basis for the creation of “the Russian Museum of Photography” in the near future. To this end, at the Centre will soon begin to act “Fund photos of the Lumiere brothers.”
A qualified team and extensive experience in organizing events related to photography, can count on the fact that the Center of Photography Lumiere brothers attract the attention of the majority of domestic and foreign lovers of photography.
