Belarusan photo exhibition has opened in Denmark

A photo exhibition about the life of modern Belarus has become a culmination of the delegation of the Belarusan journalists’ visit that took place last week in Denmark.

The trip has become possible due to the cooperation of the International Consortium “EuroBelarus” and the Danish “European house”. During the trip a group of Belarusan journalists has organized a series of meetings with the colleagues from the regional and national Danish mass media which are part of the holding company “Berlingske media”. Beside the conference on social and political life in two countries and discussions about the perspectives of the mass media development, Belarusan journalists were introduced to the practical work of Danish contributors.

Besides, during the stay in Copenhagen Belarusan delegation has visited Danish Parliament and met the representatives of the Danish Helsinki Committee as well as other public organizations. The greatest interest from the Danish side was shown in social and political situation in Belarus, the situation with freedom of mass media and issues of possible collaboration between Belarusan and European structures.

In order to diversify Danish notion of life in today’s Belarus during the visit a photo exhibition was presented. Its main goal was to show the life of the country as well as its citizens not through the lenses of politics, but in its everyday diversity, without any ideological context.

According to the representative of the “European house” Lina Petersen, two main results were achieved during the visit: Belarusan journalists were introduced with the work of the regional mass media as one of the elements of civil society formation, as well as a settlement arranged in order to collaborate with the Belarusan and Danish structures on a political level.

Also, the visit resulted in talking over the possibility to conduct a new, broadened photo exhibition about Belarus and Belarusans in Denmark. And it was decided that the term of this Belarusan photo exhibition in Copenhagen will be extended till December.