From December 4 to December 18 at the gallery The State Academic Chapel St. Petersburg will host the exhibition “Mother and Children in national costumes”, created by the International Union of Women as part of an international photo contest.
The international photo contest “Mother and Children in national costumes” has been in existence since 2019. He, with the help of talented works by photographers, is called upon to demonstrate the national flavor of the peoples of Russia and foreign countries by expressing the diversity of the culture of nations through national costume.
One of the goals of the international photo contest is to preserve traditional family values, strengthen intra—family and intergenerational relations, and form family traditions. The implementation of the activities of this project is aimed at helping to preserve the national identity, cultures and traditions of the peoples of Russia and friendly foreign countries in the context of the increasing pace of globalization of society through the national costume of mothers and children.
In 2024, the 5th anniversary International Photo Contest “Mother and Children in National Costumes” received the aegis of the Commission of the Russian Federation for UNESCO, the support of the Federal Agency for Nationalities of Russia and the Moscow City branch of the All-Russian Public Organization “Russian Geographical Society”. The photo exhibition was presented at the United Nations (Vienna), at receptions dedicated to Russia Day, in a number of diplomatic missions of the Russian Federation abroad in more than twenty-five countries. In particular, at the Russian embassies in Mongolia, France, Slovakia, Portugal, Mumbai, the Consulate General in Istanbul, the Russian House in Brussels, etc.
