For the first time on Mosfilm from 26 February to 12 March had been be presentd the photo project by Sergey Bermeniev «8 Stars». The «8n Stars» project consists of eight mini-novels, black-and-white portraits of Hollywood stars and of the world’s artistic elite. Sergey Bermeniev is a master of photo-portraiture, unfortunately more popular abroad than in his home country.Before this is the first exhibition of his works in Russia, he does not give interviews to the press. The show is arranged under the patronage of the Cultural Fund «National Portrait Gallery», on the initiative of Nikolai Kanavin («Pro-Lab Center») and the author’s wife Marina Bermenieva.

Important political leaders and Nobel Prize winners, actors and directors, writers and musicians, artists and sculptors had been photographed by Sergei Bermeniev: Laura Bush and Kofi Annan, Meryl Streep and Quentin Tarantino, Francis Ford Coppola and Jack Nicholson, Richard Gere and Mstislav Rastropovich, Lisa Minelli and Tina Turner, Al Pacino and De Niro, Julio Iglesias and Mireille Mathieu, David Bowie and Luciano Pavarotti, Issac Stern and Joseph Brodsky, Elie Wiesel and Edward Radzinski, Dizzy Gillespie and Yevgeni Kisin, Maya Plisetskaya and Vladimir Voinovich, Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Oliver Stone, Giulietta Masina and Federico Fellini — the total list includes more than 250 celebrities.

It is hard to predict the next model Sergey will choose for a portrait: this could be an actor who inspired him with a new role, a composer, whose music left a profound impression, a sportsman, a politician, an artist. ne of his most recent portrait session was held with Boris Yefimov, the principal caricaturist of the Soviet Union, who turned 107.

Great charm and wide knowledge allow Sergey Bermeniev to do something more than catching the public image of a celebrity. His models are able to relax during the session. When you look at the portraits of Al Pacino, Jack Nicholson, Sharon Stone, Meryl Streep, Sean Penn, Quentin Tarantino and others you can instantly see that the atmosphere of the session was easy and tranquil, so the work emerges as a result of an unhurried talk between friends.