Documentary Photography Network
What the Contact Sheets Couldn’t Tell
Lessons from an NRC-Handelsblad picture editor, with a detour involving a Dutch policeman, a goat and some old locomotives.
I share photographs as part of a commitment to documentary storytelling — focusing on themes that the mass media tend to ignore for lack of a news hook, and that gain little attention on social networks. These are images from the everyday lives of ordinary people — lives that seldom reach the front pages, yet contain their own quiet drama.
Soviet Sovetsk
“From Adam to Potsdam, there was no history here.”
The Last August of the Soviet Union
The August Coup, Moscow, 1991. Oleg Klimov's archive for media.
A Town Without a Bridge
The Tutaev religious procession, the Volga river, and the day when the whole town becomes a road
A City with Someone Else’s Passport
Rybinsk, Soviet Memory, and the Names Power Imposed
Photography Begins with Consciousness
Why Taking Photographs Cannot Be Separated from Choosing, Thinking, and Understanding Your Own Vision
Russia’s Golden Ring
Excursions in the interior of Russia
If You Don’t Know What to Do, Go to War
On the Stanley Greene Foundation grant for young photographers and a man who could not look away
The Right to Look and the Right to Be Seen
Women, Documentary Photography, and a New Politics of Visibility