Wonderland: A Fairy Tale about the Soviet Monolith

Wonderland: A Fairy Tale about the Soviet Monolith

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Photographer Jason Ashkenazi first visited Russia in 1991 on the eve of the August coup and has since returned here many times. The result of his work was the book project and the exhibition "Wonderland: A Fairy Tale about the Soviet Monolith", shown at the Visa Pour L'Image photojournalism festival, Perpignan, France (2004).

Wonderland: A Fairy Tale about the Soviet Monolith

In 2004, Ashkenazi received a Fulbright Scholarship to work in Russia on a series of full-length portraits of contemporaries from Kaliningrad to Vladivostok. Winner of the Guggenheim Fellowship (1999), the Dorothea Lange/Paul Taylor Prize (1999) for his work in the Jewish village in Azerbaijan and the Alicia Patterson Foundation Scholarship (1996). Ashkenazi collaborates with the Worl Picture News agency in New York. In 2004, he organized the program "Children with cameras" in old Jerusalem, where he taught photography to children of both Arabs and Jews.

Author's abstract:

Wonderland: A Fairy Tale about the Soviet Monolith

1. Club of young sailors, Kostroma, 2000.

Wonderland: A Fairy Tale about the Soviet Monolith

2. Maternity hospital in Azerbaijan, 1999.

Wonderland: A Fairy Tale about the Soviet Monolith

3. The village of Shutilovo, Russia, 1999.

Wonderland: A Fairy Tale about the Soviet Monolith

4. Without a signature.

Wonderland: A Fairy Tale about the Soviet Monolith

5. Mowing, Republic of Mari-El, 1999.

Wonderland: A Fairy Tale about the Soviet Monolith

6. Hotel Moscow, 1998.

Wonderland: A Fairy Tale about the Soviet Monolith

Krivoy Rog. Ukraine.

Wonderland: A Fairy Tale about the Soviet Monolith

8. A young man plays the trumpet for his cat, Moscow, 1998.

Wonderland: A Fairy Tale about the Soviet Monolith

Wonderland: A Fairy Tale about the Soviet Monolith

10. Jewish New Year, Uman, Ukraine, 1997.

Wonderland: A Fairy Tale about the Soviet Monolith

11. Without a signature.

Wonderland: A Fairy Tale about the Soviet Monolith

12. Georgia 1997.

Wonderland: A Fairy Tale about the Soviet Monolith

13. The Caspian Sea, Baku, Azerbaijan, 1997.

Wonderland: A Fairy Tale about the Soviet Monolith

14. Chechnya, 1996.

Wonderland: A Fairy Tale about the Soviet Monolith

15. Circus in Grozny, 2000.

Wonderland: A Fairy Tale about the Soviet Monolith

16. 2003.

Wonderland: A Fairy Tale about the Soviet Monolith

17. Without a signature.

Wonderland: A Fairy Tale about the Soviet Monolith

18. Without a signature.

Wonderland: A Fairy Tale about the Soviet Monolith

19. The village of Shutilovo, Russia, 2003.

Wonderland: A Fairy Tale about the Soviet Monolith

20. Without a signature.

Wonderland: A Fairy Tale about the Soviet Monolith

21. Without a signature.

Wonderland: A Fairy Tale about the Soviet Monolith

22. Heroin addicts, 2003.

Wonderland: A Fairy Tale about the Soviet Monolith

23. Millennium on Red Square, 2000.

Wonderland: A Fairy Tale about the Soviet Monolith

24. Stuffed famous dogs-Squirrels and Arrows in the museum.

Wonderland: A Fairy Tale about the Soviet Monolith

25. Hill with crosses, Lithuania, 2000.

26. Near Kirov, 2000.

Keywords: History | Portrait | Book | Chronicles | Agency | B/w | Laureate | 90th | Russia

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