Video: A photo cycle about Russia and other post-Soviet countries from a Dutch journalist
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
"Street-Street-Strasse" - gave this name to his photobook renowned Dutch journalist Leo Erken, thus uniting different countries and destinies in one paradigm. Traveling in Eastern Europe from 1987 to 2003, he had a unique opportunity to observe how the face of the world around him was changing.
In 1988, after graduating from the Academy of Fine Arts in Ensheed, Leo Erkin chose the path of an independent photojournalist for himself, and to this day he continues to explore this world with a camera in his hands, despite all the difficulties of the profession. Over the years, Leo has visited many post-Soviet countries, always found himself in the thick of events, watched the life of ordinary people during the most powerful political cataclysms.
For several years, the photographs were exhibited at the book fair in Leipzig, seeing the keen interest of Europeans in the subject covered, Leo Erkin decided to publish a book in which his iconic works would be collected. The photo project is aimed primarily at readers from Russia, Ukraine and residents of other Eastern European countries.
The fall of the "Iron Curtain", the years of perestroika - that is what people have not experienced in recent decades. The author is sure that the stories told by him with the help of a camera and described in Russian, English and German will help people from different generations to hear each other, share unique experiences, find something close to their hearts, which they themselves may have had to go through. …
Another interesting look at the life of post-Soviet Russia is presented in the photo project "Motherland" Englishman Simon Roberts.
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