Live dialogue – ERR’s Ida-Virumaa correspondent. Dmitry Fedotkin

21.03.2026

18:00

A lively dialogue

We invite you to a meeting with Dmitri Fedotkin on March 21 as part of the section “Live dialogue”.

Dmitri Fedotkin is ERR’s Ida-Virumaa correspondent, photographer, videographer and active member of the city community. In his work, he explores urban space, local history and everyday life in the region, telling stories about people, places and events that shape the face of the city today.

At the meeting, Dmitri shares his professional and personal experience, talks about working with visual and documentary forms, finding topics on the local agenda and how the media helps to see a familiar space with a new eye. It is an opportunity to talk about the city, memory, media and the human role in the modern urban environment in the form of an open dialogue.

One of his first documentary projects was the series “Unknown Narva”, which was realized in cooperation with Petro Alexandrov and pastor Oleg Sevastianov. The project included video designs from lesser-known pages of the city’s history. Later, Dmitri became a co-author of the series of short video stories “Narva Stories”, which was created together with guide and historian Aleksandr Openko and was dedicated to Narva and its surroundings.

Dmitri is also the author of the media project IdaRepost, in which he collects and distributes local stories – about people, events and regional initiatives.

In 2023, Dmitri Fedotkin, as an ERR correspondent, took part in an international expedition to the wreck of the ferry Estonia in the Baltic Sea, covering the course of the research operation.

Last year, two of his personal exhibitions took place in Narva – “Above the usual” and “Algorithms: the illusion of proximity”.

Currently, Dmitri Fedotkin is preparing the “Apparition” festival, which will take place on April 18. The festival program includes Artur Bondar’s lecture “The Unrevealed Past: Photos That Shouldn’t Have Been Preserved”, an exclusive tour by Aleksandr Openko and, in cooperation with Narva Kultuurimaja Rugodiv, a public conversation about cultural memory, modern ways of preserving it and its meaning today.

Photo and video recording will take place at the event.

The event will be held in Russian.

Entrance is free.