Photographer Varvara Lozenko questioned a number of Icelanders why they think their country is so different from any other places. The most common answer was ‘Because we are so few ” So she decided to photograph 320 Icelanders by the number of thousands of the country’s population. Every portrait stands for 1000 people.
Izborsk is a large village in the North-West of Russia, some 30 km away from the European border. Founded as a fortified city 1250 years ago, it seems to have stuck in the Middle Ages.
Protests For Fair Elections hold places last months in Russia. And after the election at March, 4th the certainty surrounding Vladimir Putin’s presidential victory has once again led to widespread allegations that the vote was a fix.
Most of the Russians were born in USSR, the country that exists only in our memory. There is a number of objects which bring this memory back. Communism which proclaimed “equal” opportunities for all the people, didn’t give them much choice in terms of food, clothes, design, fashion and objects of everyday life. Here is the reconstruction of Soviet still-life. (For Le Monde magazine)
VDNKh is a park in northwest Moscow. It occupies 2,375,000 square meters which is greater than territory of the Principality of Monaco. It houses more than 80 pavilions and monuments originally designed to showcase the achievements of the USSR.