Underwater world exhibition. Festival "Wild Underwater World" at the Darwin Museum

  • 30.06.2019

On August 4, the festival began its work at the State Darwin Museum underwater photography "Wild undersea world» . More than 70 participants not only from Russia, but also from 7 other countries sent 10-12 of their works to the competition. Starting in March of this year, the Moscow Open Photo Club and Russian Geographical Society selected the 100 best shots taken in different seas, oceans and lakes of our planet. Until September 26, you can personally see the fantastic grandeur of the underwater kingdom, captured not only by professional photographers, but also by amateurs with ordinary compact cameras.

The festival is being held for the second year in a row and is already becoming a traditional and expected event in the marine life of Russia. Last year, the “Wild Underwater World” exhibition in Moscow, Uglich and Obninsk was visited by tens of thousands of spectators. This time, after the exhibition in the capital, which will last until September 26, the photographs will go to Naberezhnye Chelny, Kislovodsk, Obninsk, Uglich, Saransk, and, if possible, to Kyiv and Grozny.

Today it is very difficult to surprise people with photographs, but the underwater world really touches people's hearts. Especially when we go to the Russian outback, where people are not at all spoiled by the variety of entertainment events, our exhibition arouses incredible interest among the public. For example, when we went to Uglich this year, I saw a woman standing with tears in her eyes, looking at the works of the festival participants. She said that she works as a foreman at a local factory, and it is unlikely that she will ever get to the sea and see all this in person. But she is so happy that she had the opportunity to plunge into the real underwater world with the help of these shots, says the exhibition organizer Dmitry Vinogradov.

Organizer of the Wild Underwater World festival Dmitry Vinogradov

The amazing underwater world hides many secrets and beauties that are hidden in the depths of the seas and oceans. Getting to and seeing with your own eyes the real underwater kingdom, behind which hides unusual plants, colorful fish, various coral reefs and sunken ships, is unattainable for many. However, for last years A huge leap was made in the production of photographic equipment, and a huge number of affordable cameras for underwater photography appeared. Today we can see incredible shots not only from professional photographers, but also from amateurs from different parts of the world.

The goal of the Wild Underwater World festival is to introduce viewers to the amazing beauty of the underwater world and its inhabitants. For every photographer, this is a wonderful opportunity to show their work. a huge number spectators and take part in the cultural and educational education of the younger generation.

The OceanTV channel and the OceanMedia portal act as media partners of the Festival.

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The First Russian Festival of Underwater Photography “Wild Underwater World” opened in the exhibition hall (5th floor) of the State Darwin Museum. The purpose of the Festival is to introduce viewers to the amazing beauty of the underwater world and its inhabitants. The festival will be presented until September 6.

Seventy of the best underwater photographers from Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Sweden, Israel, Germany, Indonesia, Finland, Thailand and Singapore provided 100 large format underwater photographs taken in different seas, oceans and lakes of our planet: at the North Pole, in Antarctica, under the ice of Lake Baikal, in the White, Red, Black and Japanese seas, in freshwater bodies of central Russia. Among the Festival participants are winners and laureates of prestigious international competitions underwater photography.

Reznik Demi "Needle"


Ekaterina Ponomarenko (Russia) "Hide and Seek"


Just 15 years ago, almost every photograph taken underwater seemed something amazing and incredibly beautiful. But in recent years, the world's leading manufacturers of photographic equipment have made a huge step forward, and a large number of cameras Thus, people of all income levels have the opportunity to shoot underwater. Diving has also moved from the category of an expensive hobby to a mass hobby, and now a diver with a camera is by no means a curiosity, but the most common thing in every corner of the globe.

Vedekhin Mikhail "Pauchishche"

For commercial fishing of red fish in the sea, long nets are installed to direct the fish to the right place. An octopus was spotted on one of these nets.

Polyansky Dmitry "I'm landing!"

The giant Doflein octopus usually weighs up to 10 kg. Larger individuals can reach 150 cm and weigh about 30 kg.

The opening of the festival aroused increased interest among visitors


Lisitsyn Sergey "Collective"

On the small island of Sipadan, I met amazing creatures - cone-fronted parrots. In the Scaridae parrotfish, the teeth on each jaw are fused to form plates resembling a bird's beak.

Verderevsky Sergey "In the palm"

The spiny pipit Hippocampus histrix is ​​widespread in the Indo-Pacific: from the east coast of Africa to Hawaii and Tahiti

Sidorov Andrey "Synchronized swimmers"

During a trip to the island of Mauritius, freedivers not only managed to swim with sperm whales, but even made friends and competed with them a little in the grace of their movements.

Petrov Andrey "Lezheboka"

The dugong is a representative of the order of sea cows. It has a length of 2.5-4 meters, weight reaches 600 kg. The name "dugong" comes from the Malay duyung, meaning "sea maiden"


Vinogradov Dmitry "These eyes are opposite"

Mantis shrimp in its hiding place. These shrimp have a unique vision that allows them to see objects in almost all ranges of the spectrum.


Music Oksana "Non-random meeting"


Fedorenko Sergey "House of the Clown"

A family of clown fish next to their “home” of sea anemones is an amazing symbiosis of fish and predatory sea animals that only look like sea plants, but in fact are close relatives of hydras and jellyfish


Burlakova Lydia "Dolgoper"


Sokolkov Yuri "Galaxy"

Early in the morning after sunrise, going down to the Black Sea, on the southern coast of Crimea, I saw a picture from which I could not take my eyes off. The sea was completely calm. The water was so clear that the smallest stones could be seen at the bottom. But they weren't what caught my attention. My attention was drawn to the jellyfish, which glowed in the sun and were so transparent that you could see the bottom through them.


Duke Igor "The Good Crocodile"

I found a crocodile in its traditional position - lying on the bottom and contemplating the world around it, which National Park Bunaken is truly amazing!


Vinogradov Dmitry "Home Alone"

For all the children of the world, this clown fish has long received not a scientific, but a cartoon name - Nemo


Volchenkov Vitaly "Habitat"

Queen's Gardens is an archipelago in the Caribbean Sea consisting of small islands. Located three hundred kilometers from Cuba. One of the few places in the world where you can dive with crocodiles. In the photo - an inhabitant of the Mangroves - an American crocodile


Balta Andrey "Smile"

The small bottom-dwelling fish Bathimaster Deryugina can be found everywhere from the southern to the northern coast of the Primorsky Territory


Gasparyan Sergey "Spiky flight"

Ghost fish are classified into a small independent family, Solenostomidae - tubesnouts, in which there are only 3 species. The tubesnout family is closely related to seahorses and needles, but differs from them in size and arrangement of fins.


Safonov Alexander "Serious argument"

Guadeloupe Island is the perfect place to spot great white sharks


Basket Natalia "Synchronized swimming"

The green turtle is one of the most amazing inhabitants of this planet. She looks into the bay to eat the lush grass. She behaves confidently, gives the opportunity to calmly observe herself and even makes contact herself.


The exhibition organizers invite viewers to “lift” the edge of the water and look at the amazing underwater world through the eyes of photographers.


Shanin Sergey "Pike in the interior"


Kamenskaya Oksana "The Amazing Octopus"


Petrov Valery "Underwater Dalmatian"

The spotted moray eel is so similar to a popular dog breed that is famous for its friendliness

Ivanov Yuri "Friendship"

The photograph shows one of the types of underwater symbiosis. Emperor shrimp - Periclimenes imperator


The official opening of the festival was attended by the Director of the State Darwin Museum - Anna Iosifovna Klyukina


The President of the underwater photography festival “Wild Underwater World” also made a solemn speech.


The speakers wished everyone good mood while viewing fabulous photos of the festival



The beauty and secrets of the underwater world have always attracted people, come to the festival and reveal some of the secrets

Location: Exhibition halls museum / 6th floor

From August 9 to September 30 State Darwin Museum, Moscow Open Photo Club and Union of Photographers wildlife hold the Underwater Photography Festival “Wild Underwater World”.

The festival is being held for the fourth year in a row and has already become a traditional and expected event in cultural life Russia. In addition to Moscow, the Festival is held with great success in Kislovodsk, Obninsk, Uglich, Essentuki, Omsk, Naberezhnye Chelny, Yaroslavl and even Minsk. Tens of thousands of visitors, hundreds of grateful reviews in the Book of Visits, and most importantly - this is the educational, educational and general educational function of the project. After all, the main contingent of our viewers are children - from preschoolers to high school graduates.

The main goal of the Festival is to introduce viewers to the amazing beauty of the underwater world and its inhabitants. More than fifty underwater photographers from Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Germany, Finland, Canada and Indonesia provided 100 new photographs taken in different seas, oceans and lakes of our planet. Among the Festival participants are winners and laureates of prestigious international underwater photography competitions.

Work format – 50x70 cm.