Close and Far

Close and Far presents photography and films by a new generation of artists whose work shares an interest in the meaning of identity and place in early 21st century Russia. The exhibition is centred around the recently rediscovered works of Sergei Prokudin-Gorsky, an early pioneer of colour photography who was personally commissioned by Nicholas II, the last tsar of Russia, to document the vast and varied empire he presided over. The result was an extraordinary graphic encyclopaedia of pre-Revolutionary Russia.

Curated by Kate Bush, Head of Photography at the Science Museum Group

Featuring the work of: Sergei Prokudin-Gorsky, Alexander Gronsky, Dimitri Venkov, Taus Makhacheva, Olya Ivanova and Max Sher.