Video: 9 expressive portraits of post-Soviet Muscovites in the Moscow Project
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
"The Moscow Project" - series portraits of Russians, made in different years after the collapse of the Soviet Union. The authors of the project are two talented Italian photographers, Alessandro Albert, Paolo Verzonewho visited Belokamennaya in 1991, 2001 and 2011.
Photographers believe that the camera is like a time machine, as it makes it possible to see the past, present and future at the same time. They first visited Moscow in 1991 immediately after Russia's independence, when the first collection of black and white portraits was made. Alessandro and Paolo were interested in filming ordinary people, they walked the streets in the daytime from 10 am to 5 pm and took pictures of passers-by.
At first, the artists worked in the center, visiting such famous places as Red Square and Gorky Park, but they soon realized that you can really get to know Muscovites by turning off highways and avenues into quiet streets. Then 180 portraits were made, each of which is still carefully kept in the collection of the art duet.
After visiting Moscow for the second time in September 2001, they were surprised at how much more visible the social stratification of society had become. If in 1991 Moscow was more like a communal apartment in which everyone is more or less equal, now there was a big difference between the rich and the poor.
The Moscow Project is a mirror of the present, reflecting the real development of Russian society. People of different ages, professions, social groups got into the lens of Alessandro Albert and Paolo Verzon. Well, we ourselves are interested in looking at ourselves from the outside, it was this opportunity that the artists gave the Russians.
Recall that no less interesting photo cycle about Russia and other post-Soviet countries owned by Dutch journalist Leo Erken.
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