We invite you to the show of well-known Russian photographers Not Only Kids , which will take place as part of the 5th City Charity Festival Kind-hearted Piter .
When a person becomes 18 years old, he comes out of the action field of specialized children s funds and cannot get any help up to old age. Grown-ups who get into trouble become castaways. Everybody helps kids and old people just because they are kids and old people. They would rather help kids, as there s perspective in it. They repay to old people. And a grown-up is often considered to be the only one to blame in his misfortunes, or, at least, the one to blame that he cannot help himself.
Very often grown-ups turn to our children s funds for help , says Katya Bermant, director of Altogether and Children s Hearts fund. But we have to refuse them because of the regulations of our organizations. Time has come to found a specialized relief fund for grown-ups .. How old should a person in trouble be for everyone around to turn away from him? According to my fund's regulations he should be 18. Others give 16. Not so long ago I received a mailing which offered help for children under 14.
But should charity be limited by any timeframes? From and till? An adult is the same as a kid on the photo, he just grew up. And has been taken ill. He is helpless in the face of his catastrophe with many zeros JUST LIKE a kid. But a little dark-eyed sweetie has a chance, and a grown-up doesn t.
We want to draw everybody s attention to the problem which might get actual for every member of society. And change the situation. For now at least in some specific cases.
Photoshow "Not Only Kids"
Well-known photographers, to whom belong St Petersburg citizens Sergey Maksimishin, Tatiana Plotnikova, and Ekaterina Bogachevskaya, Moscow residents Alexander Sorin, Alexander Kuznetsov, Oleg Nikishin, Oleg Klimov, Alexander Tyagny-Ryadno, Alexander Gronsky, Vladimir Vyatkin and others, present photo portraits of grown-up people. There s one thing which joins all these works: all grown-ups hold in hands their photos as kids. Among the heroes of this photo project are adults from different Russian cities, who some day came across or are now fighting against devastating diseases. They are Natalia Voronitsyna, a photographer (multiple sclerosis), Roman Kolpakov (cervical spine fracture), Svetlana Surganova (cured cancer), Elena Kravchenko (a rare form of rheumatoid arthritis), Alyona Mikhalyova (back injury), Andrey Nebolsin (unsuccessful operation on the spinal cord), St Petersburg citizen Olga Egorova (congenital heart disorder) and other people, for whose treatment visitors of the show can subscribe.
It s a unique event: for the first time in the history of Russian charity a specialized relief fund for grown-ups was founded. For the first time so many famous photographers participate in a charity photo project.
The charity gathering Altogether , which united more than 25 small private funds and voluntary organizations, carried out the first in the history of Russian charity project, which is a relief fund for grown-ups called Alive ( Zhivoy ).
The show evoked a wide response in Moscow (November, 2009, Centre of Modern Art Vinzavod ). In St Petersburg the photo show has been arranged with the assistance of the Charity Festival Kind-hearted Piter and the charity fund AdVita . After it has been exhibited in Borey, it will move to Novosibirsk and Krasnoyarsk. When in spring the show returns to Moscow, we hope that the texts under the photos will change. It will be written there who has already received a necessary treatment, who has been operated on, and who has been completely cured. |
