Pic: Christoph Grill, from: "Short Stalks at Distant Shores", house photographed in Primorje, Russia.
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Pic: Christoph Grill, from: "Short Stalks at Distant Shores", house photographed in Primorje, Russia. |
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Christoph Grill (*1965 in Austria) travelled
to all successor states of the Soviet Union between 1999 und 2010. Grand
photographs were the result that document the path of these states into
independence and the related ecological and economic changes. His photographs
of Albania, Slovakia, Poland, Hungary, Ukraine, Belarus, Russia, Lithuania,
Latvia, Estonia, Armenia, Nagorno-Karabakh, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan,
and Tajikistan capture unsentimental portraits of everyday life: children
playing amid the ruins of communist utopias, triumphal ararches in the
middle of nowhere, grass growing in the cracks of military parade grounds.
Grill‘s photographic notes locate the things seen on his travels, the
people he encountered, and their will to survive, also—and in face of—the
striking symptoms of decline. |
