Isalmic College for Women, Makhachkala, Dagestan. April 2008
My friend Max Reider sent me a link to his interview with Russian photographer Sergey Maximishin – Фотография как поступок. This quote resonates with me:
“Сегодня фотографы заняли в обществе роль, которую в шестидесятые – семидесятые занимали поэты. На встречу с фотографом могут прийти 700 человек – свидетелем тому я был и в Москве, и в Амстердаме. Благодаря развитию техники, фотография становится все более массовой, все более доступной, это – мгновенный способ самовыражения…”
A tea party for the theater club of the Mental Asylum No.7, St.-Petersburg, April 2003
Russia has such a complex and colorful texture. I don’t know if there is a better place to take photographs in the world. In addition culturally people in Russia are transparent, you can read and photograph faces over there… PETA might want to see this photo (NSFW). I guess this is where they make the Shtreimels.
Fur Farm "Pioneer". St. Peterburg Region in Russia, November 2004
Fish Farm, Kamchatka peninsula, Russia. August 2006
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“Today, photographers have taken the role in society, which in the sixties – seventies occupied poets. At a meeting with a photographer can reach 700 people – witness the fact I was in Moscow, and Amsterdam. With the development of technology, photography is becoming more mainstream, more accessible, it is – an instant way of expression … ”
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