"Faces of the Orange Revolution" photo exhibit moved and open to public in Low Library

[Diana Howansky]

If you missed last month’s launching of the photo exhibition, “Faces of
the Orange Revolution,” you can now view the photos in the Rotunda of
Columbia University’s Low Memorial Library. This exhibition was moved to
the Rotunda on Monday, March 14 and is now open to the public.

“Faces of the Orange Revolution” displays works by Kyiv photographer
Kyrylo Kysliakov, who documented the people participating in Ukraine’s
peaceful campaign of civil disobedience in November-December 2004.
Kysliakov chose to focus his camera on the individual participants of
the events -- on the average, all-Ukrainian Oksana and Petro -- the
unlikely heroes of an awakened nation, whose dignity, love of freedom
and dogged enthusiasm in the face of a brutal regime won the hearts and
minds of people around the world.

“I took the pictures of the Revolution because I could not help taking
them. I sought to reflect the spirit of the events, above all, through
the medium of portrait,” Kysliakov said.

Low Memorial Library was built in 1897, in the name of then-President
Seth Low, as the centerpiece for Columbia University's new Morningside
campus. Its general architectural style is based on the Pantheon in Rome
and the Parthenon in Greece. The building held the bulk of Columbia’s
volumes, until Butler Library was constructed to the south in 1934.
Today, Low Library houses the office of the President and Columbia’s
archival collection.

The Rotunda, originally the University’s main reading room, is
considered the most prestigious room on campus. The domed room,
surrounded by sixteen granite columns with twelve showcases, is used
today as a venue to award honorary degrees and important academic
distinctions. “Faces of the Orange Revolution” will be exhibited in the
Rotunda’s showcases for public viewing until mid-April.

For more information, contact:
--
Diana Howansky
Staff Associate
Ukrainian Studies Program
Columbia University
Room 1209, MC3345
420 W. 118th Street
New York, NY  10027
(212) 854-4697
ukrainianstudies at columbia.edu
http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/ukrainianstudies/

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