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2022

cobblestones

engraving

TOOLS

Pile of cobblestones with an engraving of soviet times photo camera brand's logo, in which is hidden a Soviet ideology. Young people are obsessed with film photography. But in Ukraine, I am also intrigued that they use soviet cameras for taking those pictures. But what images did they create, if one of the most popular cameras - FED, named after Felix Edmundovich Dzerzhinsky, who was one of the architects of the Red Terror. How is the tool of production affecting the final image? Where is hidden, the killed avant-garde artist in a picturesque shot of a stylish coffee shop? Or where is the mass grave on the colorful photo of the rave?

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