True Russia
By (Author) Alexander Petrosyan
Bokforlaget Max Strom
Bokforlaget Max Strom
15th February 2023
1st December 2022
Sweden
General
Non Fiction
Cultural studies
Photojournalism and documentary photography
779.994721
Hardback
172
Width 300mm, Height 265mm
1360g
A picture can perhaps not change the world, but it can increase our understanding of it. In True Russia, Ukrainian-born photographer Alexander Petrosyan brings us on a journey through the lives of the inhabitants of St Petersburg. His ambition is to stop the beholder in their tracks and wonder what is really happening.
Alexander Petrosyan was born in 1965 in Lviv in Ukraine. He started capturing the street life of St Petersburg at age of 14 and has followed that pursuit since then and became a professional photographer in the year 2000. He is internationally regarded as one of the most original photographers in Russia and his absurd and compassionate images - full of dark humor and social criticism - have garnered him multiple awards.