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'In Russias' with love - photos of a diverse people
Published: 15 December, 2009, 21:17
Edited: 16 December, 2009, 10:23
TAGS: Art, Celebrity, Russia, Prime Time Russia
An album of possibly the most comprehensive and eclectic collection of pictures of Russia has just been published. Its author is British photographer James Hill, who first came to Moscow in the early 1990s.
At that time he began to work here for The New York Times and has been working closely in Russia ever since.
From Red Square to the Arctic Circle, from World War II veterans to Bolshoi Theater dancers – this collection of photographs brings you Russia full of people and places so strikingly and amazingly different that this album is even called ‘In Russias’ – not Russia, but Russias, in plural.
An award-winning photo-artist, who also has been living in Kiev and Roma as well as traveling through the Middle East, Caucasus and Africa, James Hill thinks that Russia is a very difficult country to capture.
“For the English it’s something that we miss, we miss and an enigma, wrapped in a riddle, sort of a mystery," Hill said. "When I was younger I read a lot of Russian literature. I first came in 1991 and I had an enormous idea what this country was. Eighteen years later I’m still trying to capture it. And this book has taken moments from many different places inside Russia, but it’s like pieces of something which is so enormous, so vast… It’s different in every single place; it’s not possible to say that there is just one Russia, and that’s why we call it ‘In Russias’.”
14.12.2009, 21:56
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