Benedict Tyshkevich pretends to be a karateist and spies on girls in bed in 19th century photos.
The exposition is unique because it is a miracle that photos dating back to the end of the 19th century have been preserved – employees of a French museum bought them from a Parisian antiquarian accidentally. It is the third time the exposition is opened in the last 15 years – the first time was in France in 1994 and then in Lithuania in 2000. Now the 86 photos have finally returned home.
The old well-preserved photos depict Belarusian villagers and their way of life. Here is a man taking on water from a river and here is a woman carrying it home in a basin on top of her head. A guy and a girl sitting on a fallen tree, their legs dangling in the air, talking about something affectionately. A laundress doing the washing with her hardened hands in a trough.
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