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Born in 1972 in Moscow, Russia 1998: MFA, Bard College, Annendale-on-Hudson, NY 1995: BFA, Bard College, Annendale-on-Hudson, NY |
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"This series of photographs titled Moscow Diaries is the culmination of my work as a visual artist entranced by the past and memory. While most of my work has been on motion picture film, the still photographs present my constant need to freeze a moment in time; to recapture the past and keep it to myself. Having emigrated from Russia at the age of seven, almost eighteen years ago, I am constantly drawn to Russia as my subject. My purpose, not only with this series of photographs, but also of my work in film, has been to find the self I left behind all those years ago. I wander the streets of Moscow and St. Petersburg on a constant lookout for myself or my mother in the form of strangers. That is whom I photograph, my past in the form of present strangers. Having all the memories of my childhood wiped out in some sick self-defense mechanism, I am constantly aware of my need to recapture the memories that I have lost. This is my purpose. This is the language of my work: to find what I have lost, to make others see themselves in the sometimes lonely and desolate images, to find what we all at one time or another lose and can never find again."
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