Oleg Klimov

Oleg Klimov was born in 1964 in Tomsk. He studied at the Kazan University, specialty - an astrophysicist.

Since 1989, a photographer of the newspaper "Evening Kazan". Since 1991 works in the newspaper NRC-Handelsblad (Netherlands). He has also worked for magazines: Ogonek, Results, Time, Elsevier, Stern, Le Monde, newspapers:

. Izvestia, Komsomolskaya Pravda, Het Parool, The Times, The Independent, The Washington Post, news agency France Presse, Sygma, etc.
. In 1990 he received the All-Union prize "King reportage.

. In 1993, together with a Dutch journalist Hubert Smeets publishes documentary book about Russia "Gekrenkte zielen
. Vrijheid in Rusland "(" Hurt Soul. Freedom in Russia "). In 1999, together with Dutch photographer Maurice Boyer published a book on the latest developments in Kosovo: "Tussen Belgrado en Skopje. Foto's van de oorlog om Kosovo "(" between Belgrade and Skopje. Photos of the war in Kosovo ").

Repeatedly went to "hot spots" of the former Soviet Union (Abkhazia, Chechnya, Tajikistan), Eastern Europe (Bosnia, Kosovo) and Central Asia (Iraq) to cover the regional conflicts. Exhibitions and festivals in Kazan, Moscow, Novosibirsk, New York, Naardene (Netherlands).

. In the near future in our Gallery photos will be published Klimov made to them in Iraq in 1997-1999.

. Detailed version of this exhibition, entitled "Just War" until August 2000, you can look at Moscow's indoor Soros Foundation (for details see Playbill) The exhibition is presented by:
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. Open Society Institute "(Russia)
. The "Culture"
. The "Hot Spots"
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Subsequently, the exhibition will be shown in other cities of Russia.