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Igor Savchenko and Contemporary Belarusian Photography: Reimagining the Visual

This digital collection of Contemporary Belarusian Photography is the largest US-based digital archive of visual works produced in Minsk in the 1980s–2010s. The collection includes more than 1500 images of visual and textual works created by Igor Savchenko, a key participant of the socio-cultural phenomenon known as the Minsk School of Photography.

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The curated DPUL collection Igor Savchenko and Contemporary Belarusian Photography: Reimagining the Visual includes most of the works created by the artist in 1985–2017. The digital archive was donated to Princeton by Igor Savchenko in 2022 and 2023. The gift was enabled by extensive fieldwork that the anthropologist Serguei Oushakine has been conducting in Minsk since 2009. Throughout 2022–2024, the archive was organized and prepared for publication in DPUL by Anna Meerson, a Library Collections Specialist, and Thomas Keenan, the Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies Librarian at Princeton. 

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Princeton University Library claims no copyright governing this digital resource. It is provided for free, on a non-commercial, open-access basis, for fair-use academic and research purposes only. Anyone who claims copyright over any part of these resources and feels that they should not be presented in this manner is invited to contact Princeton University Library, who will in turn consider such concerns and make reasonable efforts to respond to such concerns.

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[Identification of item], [Sub-collection name (if applicable)], Igor Savchenko and Contemporary Belarusian Photography: Reimagining the Visual Collection, Princeton University Library.

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