As is known, an image on a photographic film or a digital camera matrix appears as a result of exposure to light. This fact is enshrined in the word "photography" itself and does not require proof. But the world is not monochrome - almost all objects and living creatures around us are painted in a variety of colors, and it is often the color that attracts the photographer's attention, highlighting the subject of the photo. Nevertheless, for many decades photographers created mainly black and white images, only occasionally striving to reproduce real colors in color photography. Now the situation has completely changed: with "digital" shooting, the overwhelming majority of photographs are colored and only some of them are then transformed into monochrome images. Color has become dominant and this situation is not always justified. Meanwhile, there are subjects that can be successfully captured only in color. Moreover, it is often color that creates a unique image that cannot be revealed when shooting on black and white materials. This simple conclusion helped me realize the need to select photographs in which color plays the main role. The color schemes of such photographs can be very diverse. It is possible that two colors dominate - this is how the photographs "Red and Purple", "White and Blue" and some others presented at this exhibition appeared. Sometimes the color scheme of a photograph consists of many shades of the same color ("Pond in the Arboretum") or forms a bizarre combination of color spots ("Rain on the Champs Elysees") or stripes ("Atlantic. Before the Storm"). But, despite this, I believe that all the photographs in which color dominates reflect a positive attitude even in those cases when the plot captured in them contains internal tension or anxiety ("Russian Fortress Oreshek"). The work on creating this exhibition from photographs taken in different years and in different places brought the author great pleasure, which is reflected in the title of the exhibition - "Joy of Color", emphasizing both his admiration for the play of color and the hope that this will be perceived by attentive and thoughtful viewers.