Exhibit Opening. Kirill Radchenko: War and Peace

Please join the Harriman Institute and Novyi Zhurnal (The New Review) for a reception celebrating the opening of the exhibit Kirill Radchenko: War and Peace, featuring the photographs by the late journalist, cinematographer, and photographer Kirill Radchenko. The exhibit is organized in cooperation with PEN Moscow and its director Nadezhda Azhgikhina.

Exhibit runs March 23 – May 15, 2020. Exhibit hours are Monday–Friday, 9:30AM – 5:00PM excluding university holidays.

Radchenko wasy just starting out as a conflict journalist when he and two colleagues—filmmaker Alexander Rastorguev and journalist Orkhan Djemal—were killed by an unidentified armed gang in a car ambush in the Central African Republic on July 30, 2018. They were making a documentary about the Wagner Group, a Russian private military company that operates as an unofficial unit of the Russian Ministry of Defense and has taken part in conflicts ranging from the war in Syria to conflicts in Donbass and the Chechen Republic. The film was sponsored by the Investigation Control Center (a project funded by Mikhail Khodorkovsky).

Kirill Radchenko (1985-2018) was born in Moscow. Upon graduating from the College of Arts #59, he held positions at the Moscow Museum of Cinema, the Union of Journalists, and Mossovet, and also worked with the Troppiere Group and GA Studio. The year 2016 marked a turning point in his career, when he began working with the Abkhazian Network News Agency, better known as the Anna News Agency, specializing in reporting from conflict zones. Radchenko made several video reports from Syria and Donbass. In 2018 Radchenko joined a group of election observers on their way to Chechnya, which had been organized by opposition leader Alexey Navalny. It was on this trip that he met film director Alexander Rastorguev, who invited Radchenko to join his new documentary film project, Electing Russia (2018). Their next film project was a documentary about the Wagner Group.