Video: 10 best photo cycles about post-Soviet Russia made by foreign journalists
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Many foreign photographers are watching with interest how the Russia in the post-Soviet years. Your attention is a review of the best works of professional photojournalists who visited our country after 1991.
1. "Land of expectations" - this is how Scottish journalist Simon Crofts called his photo cycle. The artist visited Ukraine, Russia and Belarus, was amazed by the openness and hospitality of the Russians, but noted with bitterness that the once united peoples are now beginning to “share” aspirations, historical memory, economic and political systems, which is clearly detrimental to their development.
2. Photocycle "A place without roads" - a sincere story by the Finnish photographer Ville Lankeri about the dying Russian village of Pyramida in the Norwegian archipelago.
3. Photocycle "Traces of the Soviet Empire" Italian Eric Lucito is dedicated to abandoned military bases in the post-Soviet space.
4. Dutch journalist Leo Erken in the photo book "Street-Street-Strasse" spoke about Russia and other post-Soviet countrieswhich he visited between 1987 and 2003.
5. Post-Soviet Russia is also represented in the photo cycle "Homeland" of the English photographer Simon Roberts, who visited our country in 2004-2005.
6. O post-Soviet atmosphere in Russian sanatoriums tells a photo cycle of the Norwegian duo Rob Hornstra and Arnold Van Bruggen.
7. "The Moscow Project" - a shocking collection of portraits of Muscovites from Italian photographers Alessandro Albert and Paolo Verzon.
8. Photocycle "Hostel" by Canadian photojournalist Pascal Dumot is an unadorned story about how students of Moscow universities live.
9. "Hopelessly Perfect" - a photo cycle about the exhausting path to Russian ballet from American Rachel Papo. The shocking truth about the life of young talents who study at the Academy of Russian Ballet. Vaganova.
10. And finally - guards of Russian museums through the eyes of Andy Friberg.
The face of Russia has undergone many changes over the past decades. The era of high technologies has made adjustments to the usual rhythm of life, the tastes of Russians have changed, fashion has become more frivolous, and leisure is more extreme. Although, if you look closely, we are still surrounded by so many artifacts of the Soviet era that one involuntarily wonders if we have gone so far from the USSR?
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