Anastasia Tsayder: Arcadia

Photographer Anastasia Tsayder discovers idyllic 'Arcadia' in Togliatti, a ‘socialist’ city rebuilt in the late 1960s on the bank of the Volga. Soviet standards of housing and infrastructure required mandatory creation of green areas filled with sculptures and fountains. Various potted plants inhabited large empty halls of public institutions -...

Anastasia Tsayder: 1980 Moscow Olympics

The series looks at the heritage of Moscow 1980 Summer Olympics. The 1980 games became the last bright all nation event to happen in the USSR, the last big start meant to prove the superiority of Socialist regime and ideas of Communism over Capitalism. Olympic buildings, mostly designed in 1975-1978,...