Ekaterina Vasilyeva is a Russian photographer from St. Petersburg, working at the intersection of the genre, documentary and art photography. In most of her projects she explores the theme of a particular place (space, territory), it changes in the context of time and historical landmarks, environmental problems, interaction with human activity, personal relationships and myths of the place. How did you get to […]
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‘Amour’ by Claudine Doury
Claudine Doury is based in Paris and shot the images of her latest photobook Amour during three visits to the Amur River, Russia, spanning almost 30 years: as a young photographer in 1991, six years later in 1997, and once more in 2018. Amur (translated to ‘Amour’ in French) means love. Amour is a multidimensional […]
A Dive into the Enigmatic Stalker by Andrei Tarkovsky
Released in 1979, Stalker is at the end of the career of Russian director Andrei Tarkovsky. It is a poetic and atypical story of a guide, a stalker, taking an artist and a scientist, to a forbidden area called the “Zone” to find the “Room”, which is said to grant the wishes of anyone who enters. […]
Polina Washington, Visual Poetry
Polina Washington is a 25-year-old Russian photographer from the city of Novgorod the Great currently based in Saint Petersburg. She graduated from the University of Cinema and Television as a Director of Photography, and she works as such for music videos and other projects, as well as a commercial photographer to earn her living. She […]
Julia Agafonova
Julia Agafonova (26) is a young Russian photographer based in Saint Petersburg. Inspired by boredom and playing with light, she captures the dull atmosphere that invades public and private spaces in her hometown. Check out more of her work on Flickr.