Cherepovets is a Russian city, an administrative center of Vologda region, with a population of around 317 000 people. It is situated in the North-West of Russia somewhere between Moscow and Saint Petersburg. I was born in this city and lived there for twenty four years. As a big part...
Tatiana Vinogradova: Days of Melancholy
This series of portraits is focused on the life of gay people in Russia. It is a visual tale of melancholy, loneliness and uncertainty about the future. In Russia the level of intolerance toward homosexuality has been rising sharply. A 2013 survey found that 74% of Russians said homosexuality should...
Max Sher: Russian Palimpsest
Russian Palimpsest is a photographic exploration of the contemporary post-Soviet inhabited landscape in Russia, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Tajikistan, and Ukraine (approximately 70 urban and suburban locations overall). I am shifting the optics from the Soviet sublime and Western exoticism to the everyday of our cities transitioning from a Communist Utopia to...
Elena Anosova: Section
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...
Alina Desyatnichenko: Baikal of Wonders
The land of Baikal region in Russia has always been sacred for the local indigenous peoples – buryats. After 70 years of stagnation the religious faith of their ancestors began to revive. Shamans are necessary for talking with gods and ancestors. To become a shaman you need to have not...
Sarah Blesener: Borodino
Portraits of adolescents attending the Historical War Camp in Borodino, Moscow Oblast, Russia - summer of 2016. Over 200,000 youth are currently enrolled in clubs with 10,000 in Moscow. Each club functions independently with their own structures and philosophies. In 2015, a proposed program from the Russian government entitled the...
Interview with documentary photographer Julia Abzaltdinova
Julia Abzaltdinova - born in Ekaterinburg, Russia in 1984 in the family of photography lovers. She took an interest in photography when she was in high school. When she was a student at University, she attended «PhotoThursday» photo-club at the Metenkov Photography Museum. When she was 20 she has graduated...
Interview with photojournalist Pavel Volkov
Pavel Volkov - photographer from Russia, actually lives in Moscow. Started his career as a freelancer working for various photo agencies in Saint Petersburg and Moscow, covered different social topics concerning Russia and relevant events in the country. Covered the events on the Maidan, in Crimea and south-east of the...
Anna Filipova: Arcitc Coal
Svalbard is a cold, dark and isolated island in the Arctic Ocean, situated about midway between continental Norway and the North Pole. Norway and Russia are the only two nations with settlements there. Large-scale coal mining that established communities in Svalbard during the 1920s remains the main industry to this...
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...