MEZEN: BY SKY’S EDGE
2017—in progress
Time in the Mezen villages seems to have stood still, with its backdrop of centuries-old wooden cabins, ruined churches, and archaic crosses; people talk more about former times than about the here and now; the past seems more real than the present.
TOWARDS THE HORIZON
2003—2014
When you leave Moscow for province you feel like crossing the border between two different worlds, the feeling of space changes so the feeling of time does.
KOLYMA: IN THE SHADOW OF TIME
2014—2016, 2020
The first thing we think of when we hear “Kolyma” is the years of the Stalin’s repressions. It still bears some scars of the past, the age of brutal develop.
GRESHNY CHELOVECHE
a sinning man or sinner in old Russian notation
2006—2011
I think that it’s important to go deeper than the religious side of the event that lies on the surface, to try to show the person outside of the crowd. To depict the conversation with God, while not going into extremes: without cynicism on one hand and avoiding being pious on the other.
BLACK SEA IN WINTER
2015—2017
The Black Sea is rarely calm now, the southern winds in winter bring rain clouds and storms, raging sea here looks very dark, almost black, legend has it that this is the reason ancient Greeks called it The Black Sea.
WHERE PINEGA STARTS ITS FLOW
2010—2011
Up river Pinega that flows in the Arkhangelsk region, Russia, the villages form so called “bushes” — 15-20 villages around a central larger town.
MOSCOW IN COLOR
2016—2021
BLACK & WHITE MOSCOW
2001—2015
SELECTED COLOR
2013—2022
UKRAINE
Donetsk Region, 2005 and 2013
