Wonderland: A Fairy Tale about the Soviet Monolith
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By Pictolic https://pictolic.com/article/wonderland-a-fairy-tale-about-the-soviet-monolith.htmlPhotographer 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).
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:
1. Club of young sailors, Kostroma, 2000.
2. Maternity hospital in Azerbaijan, 1999.
3. The village of Shutilovo, Russia, 1999.
4. Without a signature.
5. Mowing, Republic of Mari-El, 1999.
6. Hotel Moscow, 1998.
Krivoy Rog. Ukraine.
8. A young man plays the trumpet for his cat, Moscow, 1998.
10. Jewish New Year, Uman, Ukraine, 1997.
11. Without a signature.
12. Georgia 1997.
13. The Caspian Sea, Baku, Azerbaijan, 1997.
14. Chechnya, 1996.
15. Circus in Grozny, 2000.
16. 2003.
17. Without a signature.
18. Without a signature.
19. The village of Shutilovo, Russia, 2003.
20. Without a signature.
21. Without a signature.
22. Heroin addicts, 2003.
23. Millennium on Red Square, 2000.
24. Stuffed famous dogs-Squirrels and Arrows in the museum.
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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