An online retrospective exhibition of newspaper photos of the 1990s “Chronicle. Photos on the Pages of Newspapers”, dedicated to the 30 years of Independence of Ukraine to Journalist Day of Ukraine is presented within the museum art project “The Town of Kropyvnytskyi Captured on Camera”. The art project is aimed at the promotion of the creative work of photographers from Kropyvnytskyi, as well as modern photo artists who have high professional level in the sphere of photo art, create photo materials aimed at enriching and preservation of historical heritage, coverage of the cultural, social, and economic life of the town of Kropyvnytskyi and its citizens.
    Journalist Day of Ukraine is a professional holiday for journalists, correspondents, and reporters. It is celebrated according to the Decree of the President of Ukraine from October 25, 1994, annually on June 6. On this day in 1992, the Union of Journalists of Ukraine was accepted to the International Federation of Journalists, which is the largest world organization of professional media workers. The most effective journalistic genre is considered photo reportage. Its peculiarities are actuality, visualization, emotional intensity, and close link of the object with the place and time of the shooting, integrity of perception of the situation or event because it shares the story with the help of visual means.
    The exhibition consists of thirty black and white photos which were displayed in O.O.Osmerkin Art-Memorial Museum at the exhibition “Chronicle. Photos on the Pages of Newspapers” to Independence Day of Ukraine, presented on August 20, 1988. The authors are famous press photographers of then leading newspapers in Kirovohrad (now Kropyvnytskyi) members of the National Union of Journalists of Ukraine Volodymyr Reshetnykov and Oleh Shramko (“Kirovohradska Pravda”), Ihor Demchuk and Oleksandr Shuleshko (“Narodne Slovo”), Oleksandr Kolomynov (“Vechirnia Hazeta”), and Oleh Hryb “Ukraina-Tsentr”.
    The majority of the photos are in the original framing from the newspapers’ pages which accentuates the images captured by the reporters’ cameras. The scientific concept of the exhibition, developed by the leading researcher of the museum Andrii Nadezhdin, now Merited Artist of Ukraine, determined the way the photos were exhibited. Many photographs have author’s titles which nowadays can be perceived in a symbolic way: “Running through time”, “Toy for adults”, “Political passions”, “Harsh truth”, “To peace and consent in Ukraine”.
    The idea to present the exhibition online on the museum website is aimed at the recreation of retrospection of the 1990s events and express respect, acknowledgment, and fascination to the authors of the newspaper photos by their professionalism. Many of them have become laureates of the Regional Award among Journalists in the nomination “photojournalism” and the Town Award among the Photo Artists named after Vasyl Kovpak, and Ihor Demchuk was awarded a high National Rank “Merited Journalist of Ukraine”.
    The exhibition is completed with archive materials from the museum collection – invitations to the exhibition opening with the signatures of its participants and the newspapers “Kirovohradska Pravda” and “Narodne Slovo” with the reports covering the event.