Danila Tkachenko is a Russian photographer whose series Restricted Areas crystallises the tendencies of many artists working on themes of the post-Soviet space. As Calvert 22’s Power and Architecture season demonstrates, there is a healthy interest in the abandoned or neglected buildings that once served as landmarks of Soviet ambition: the rack and ruin of utopia. What sets Tkachenko apart is the unforgiving simplicity of his compositions. — calvertjournal.com
All photos from Danila Tkachenko's series Restricted Areas. For far more of these beauties, head over to Calvert Journal.
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The first image is of Buzludja in Bulgaria. Its not Russian!
Halfway through reading the series, and I'm really impressed, they do touch on the subject of generalization Bulgar, so it's not all bad.
Soviet and Russian are not the same thing, some of the monuments are truly epic in scale and in the snow with no people is a little hard to precive
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