You are mine is a series of stories of Russian women who endured domestic partner violence. These stories are about power and control of one person over another. They are about difficulties of recognizing violence and to resist it on personal and government level. Because violence is not only when...
Daria Garnik: Gagarin
The triumphal and tragically broken life of Yuri Gagarin - the first human to journey into outer space – made him the cult hero of the Soviet mythology and the central figure of scientific and atheistic propaganda of the USSR. Space exploration was one of the priority directions of domestic...
Pavel Volkov: Playing with Darkness
About his project says Pavel: Sergey Mangos story for me is an example of outstanding human strength and power - not only physical but also spiritual. For the first time I saw Sergey near one Moscow underground station in a rush hour. He was standing near the entrance, not very...
Alexander Anufriev: Russia Close-Up
About his project says Alexander: I grew up in modern Russia — I never saw the Soviet Union behind the Iron Curtain, or experienced its censorship and propaganda. But this gap in my life experience is being rapidly filled by things that have been happening in Russia over the last few years....
Andrey Semenov: Invasion
Earth equally soaks up temple and shit. Close your eyes for a minute, and cities surrounding you will disappear. So-called artefacts, like buildings, highways, airports or shopping malls, which are considered to be the proof of superiority of certain species of this planet – all of them remind of a...
Ivan Pushkin: Sacred
The tradition of sanctification in the folk Slavic culture was the way to make places and objects sacred, and empower them with purifying and protective effects; it was the separation of the sacral space and everyday life. Recently, Russian society has become quiet sensitive to the boundaries between these areas,...
Ikuru Kuwajima: Tundra Kids
In the arctic tundra of Russia, there is a boarding school for the Nenets, the nomadic northern indigenous people. The children study and live there to receive formal education from autumn to spring. From April to September, they are with their families and reindeers in the middle of the tundra,...
Olga Ingurazova: Wolf Story
This is a series of interlaced stories that mirror the devastating war that struck a disputed region of the Caucasus and the aftermath of its geopolitical isolation. It is a story of a man and his homeland that were alienated from each other yet remaining within one mutual world of...
Denis Esakov: Spying on Moscow. A Winged Guide to Architecture
A pedestrian in the city sees buildings in the context of the city landscape, with the façades as main attraction. Architects and engineers are focused on construction and design, and urbanists consider individual buildings solely as elements of the city complex. Thus the angle of observation influences the reception of...
Katerina Shmidtke: People of Taiga
About her project "People of Taiga" says Katerina: This is a project about life in the solitude of taiga - tenacious of life, hardworking, hand in hand people who live in villages far away along Pinega river, being almost cut off from the rest of the world. The development of...