For this assignment the masters decided to give participants three weeks to approach a city/town/village or other geographical point of each participant's choice as a place of origin. It could be a place where the participant lived permanently and had been born in, or happened to be or was working at this point in time.
We were interested in the images about the relationship of people with the place showing what the place means to the subjects and to photographers, what makes it different from other places, the emotional reaction to the state of the place, anything that draws towards this place or that has had an effect on the participant as a person/photographer/artist. In short, masters wanted to see the origins, roots of a certain geographical place in relation to concrete people or groups of people.
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The population of Moscow is more than 15 millions people and only 10.5 million are legal residents, the rest of them are the 'guests of the capital'
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This mini-autobiography follows the most important spots in photographer's native Yerevan
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The series is about St.Petersburg's main avenue, it's inhabitants, situations and relationships. The title refers to the story of the great Russian writer Nikolay Gogol
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'I was on the Black sea coast - not in Russia but in Georgia. This part of Georgia is called Adjara and the city of my destination is called Batumi'
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'When I was little it appeared to me as the Magic Land - fruit gardens, labyrinths of garages next to the river, hostels and "khrushchovkas" mixed with private houses, children and babushkas - all so dear...'
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'This small and maybe unpretentious project is my investigation of Moscow. Things I found amazing and sometimes a bit strange'
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Cheremushki, then a village to the south-west of Moscow became country's first construction site for Khruschev's mass housing project in 1958
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'This story is an attempt to find a country of my childhood with a series of prefabricated homes, engulfed by debris, industrial areas, with good people and the future, which would be quite different'
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Most of them sold out their houses and properties. People live in rental houses now
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'I relied on the feeling that these places, that became essentially dear to me through my work, give me, while selecting the images.'
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'I'm renting an apartment near the Moscow ring highway in south-west district - despite all the garbage around and lots of typical buildings I feel some awkward bewitchment of this place'
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The new MEDIA pages at [OR]EDU feature photographs and multimedia pieces produced by the EDU project participants in the course of our online workshops, as well as set the context for the Objective Reality's educational activities.
As our new workshops season starts this fall we look forward to publish materials contributed by professional photographers that correlate to the topics assigned within the workshops
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