russian ark

• Photographer
  calogero russo

On December 25th 1991 the Supreme Soviet Leader officially dismissed the Soviet Union. in this way, Michail Gorbachev with a “parliamentary” resolution and with a 13 minutes speech aired on TV, ended the agony of the communist system which started in the late 80s in the Eastern Germany, with the fell of the Berlin Wall. A political collapse that hit also Europe where civil wars and national movements arose (Yugoslavia, Moldavia and Transnistria). 25 years after the ruin of of the URSS, this work represents a “journey” throughout Russia and its former states within which still today preserve the atmosphere of the “Russian spirit”.

documentary photographer based in Milan. more info on my website