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Oleg Klimov ⁽³⁸⁾

A freelance documentary photographer and photojournalist.

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November 3, 2026

The Seven AI Samurai

October 12, 2026

When Photographs Testify

Selecting a photograph from contact sheets. By Oleg Klimov

October 2, 2026

What the Contact Sheets Couldn’t Tell

The “Young Pioneers” sculptures stand outside a building that housed the city’s House of Pioneers during the Soviet era. In Tilsit, the building housed the “Zu den drei Erzvätern” Masonic lodge. Photo: Oleg Klimov.

September 16, 2026

Soviet Sovetsk

The Tutaev religious procession, Russia. July 2026. Photo by Oleg Klimov

July 28, 2026

A Town Without a Bridge

A boy and Lenin on Red Square. Rybinsk, Yaroslavl Oblast, Russia — because apparently Moscow does not have a monopoly on Red Squares. Photo by Oleg Klimov

July 25, 2026

A City with Someone Else’s Passport

Lunch Atop a Skyscraper, published in the New York Herald Tribune on October 2, 1932. Photographer uncertain; attributed to Charles Clyde Ebbets, Tom Kelley, or William Leftwich. Courtesy of Wikipedia.

June 15, 2026

Photography Begins with Consciousness

June 8, 2026

Russia’s Golden Ring

Chechen rebel prays before battle, 2001. Grozny, Chechnya, Russia. Photo by Oleg Klimov.

June 6, 2026

If You Don’t Know What to Do, Go to War

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