Holy Rus
Some thirty years after the collapse of communism, Vladislav Semenov portrays the bittersweet reality of a post-Soviet world steeped in contradictions — a landscape oscillating between hypermodernity and folk tradition, opulence and destitution, kitsch and classicism, faith and consumerism.
The book brings together film photographs captured across Russia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Turkmenistan, and Ukraine.
With irony, yet never without empathy, the photographer exposes the paradoxes and the often tragicomic absurdity of everyday life: revelers and pensioners, patriots and tourists, the devout and the destitute — all united in the fragile theatre of the ordinary.
What began as a travelogue gradually transforms into a personal diary, tracing both a physical and inner journey through the artist’s native lands — an attempt to weave back together the scattered threads of his origins.
All proceeds from the book sale will be donated to Nochlezhka that supports homeless people in Russia.
Nochlezhka is a non-profit, non-governmental organisation, that helps homeless people in Russia.
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