The works of the Izvestia photographer became part of the exposition of the Historical and Art Museum in Balashikha.

On March 13, the Balashikha Museum of History and Art opened an exhibition dedicated to the 80th anniversary of victory in the Great Patriotic War. The works of Pavel Volkov, a military photojournalist at Izvestia International Exhibition Center, became part of a large exhibition.

The exhibition presents a series of works by the Izvestia journalist in 2022 called Requiem, where the main characters are ordinary residents of the Lugansk People's Republic. Filming of the project lasted for three months in 2022. War correspondent Pavel Volkov then made three business trips to the LPR: on February 25, he was in Lugansk, then in May 2022, he moved West along with the front line, and in September 2022, he filmed for a material about the referendum on the annexation of new territories. The footage shows the consequences of the shelling of civilians, the lives of the elderly and children who died under the bombing. Thus, Requiem tells about the life of the civilian population in the war zone by means of documentary photography, without embellishment.

Previously, this series of poignant images won first place at the All-Russian competition of military Photojournalism and was exhibited on the Arbat in Moscow, as well as on the Arbat in Chelyabinsk.

The exhibition will run until May 11, 2025 at 53 Lenin Avenue, Balashikha.

Pavel Volkov is a staff photojournalist at Izvestia, a laureate of a number of prestigious Russian and international photography awards. His work has been published in The New York Times Lens blog, International New York Times, Der Spiegel, Washington Post, Harpers Magazine, Rolling Stones New York. He covered the events on the Maidan, in Crimea, and in southeastern Ukraine. His works on the lives of civilians in the SVR zone were recognized as the best in the Federal Reportage nomination at the XXIII Alexander Yefremov Reportage Photography Competition.