The project about women's prisons is a part of a trilogy that is centered around lives of women in closed institutions. The impulse of research of such communities arose in a reflection of my teenage period spent at the closed rehabilitation boarding school. I would like to take a closer...
Interview with documentary photographer Elena Anosova
Originally hailing from the picturesque region of Baikal, artist Elena Anosova (born in 1983) is currently based in Moscow and Irkutsk. Anosova graduated from the The Rodchenko ArtSchool, Moscow, Russia in 2016. Anosova’s work is centered around lives of women in closed institutions, isolation, social stigmatization. The impulse of research...
Elena Anosova: Saagan Sag
Olkhon is the only inhabited island of the lake Baikal and a tourist resort center of the Siberia during summer-time. The island is a sacral place for several religions, shamanism and buddhism, and it used to be territory of neolithic people sites. For several winter months (2010-2015) I record everyday...
Elena Anosova: OUT-OF-THE-WAY
OUT-OF-THE-WAY project was created on the far away territories of the Extreme North of Russia, where bad accessibility and isolation, special relationship with nature and following the century-long ways of life involve unique mythology of the region where the fictional things are very often more important than modern reality. These...
Photogrvphy Grant 2016 – Winners Announced!
American photographer Drew Nikonowicz (born 1993) has been announced as the overall winner of this year’s Photogrvphy Grant and granted $1000 prize money to support his visual projects. His winning series, titled ‘This World and Others Like It” investigates the role of the 21st century explorer by combining computer modeling...