Europäischer Monat der Fotografie Berlin - Artists (in alphabetic order)

Chandogin

War photos from Karelia and Leningrad 1939-1944

Deutsch-Russisches Museum Berlin-Karlshorst

Künstler unbekannt: Nikolaj I. Chandogin
1943 © Deutsch-Russisches Museum Berlin-Karlshorst
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The Leningrad photographic correspondent Nikolai I. Chandogin (19091989) was one of the few photographers to be taking photos in Karelia during the Soviet-Finnish winter war of 1939/40. This resulted in unusual aperçus of a still largely unknown war.

When the Germans attacked the Soviet Union in June 1941, Chandogin was again assigned to the Red Army as a war photographer. This exhibition includes not only pictures from the front and shots of the everyday life of the war in the Leningrad region, in Estonia and Karelia, but also impressive pictures of Leningrad itself. Besieged by German and Finnish troops from September 1941 to January 1944, the city was almost completely cut off from all sources of supply. Chandogins camera focuses on the dying and survival of the inhabitants of the second biggest Soviet metropolis, under the inhuman conditions of the blockade.

After the war Chandogin worked for the journals Soviet Union and Ogonek.