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Polish photographer Rafal Milach accompanied with his camera seven young people living in the Russian cities of Moscow, Yekaterinburg, and Krasnoyarsk. In intimate pictures, he portrays a generation caught up between the mentality of the old Soviet regime and the up-and-coming Russia of the Putin era. In this album, bound in high-grade synthetic leather, these snapshots of contemporary Russian life are accompanied by sensitive interviews with those portrayed.
7 Rooms was shortlisted for Paris Photo Aperture PhotoBook Award 2012 in the category First Book and was winner of the Best Photography Book Pictures of the Year Award 2011.
Synopsis
A sensitive portrait of contemporary Russian life that goes far beyond the familiar stereotypes
Synopsis
Over a period of several years, Polish photographer Rafal Milach accompanied with his camera seven young people living in the Russian cities of Moscow, Yekaterinburg and Krasnoyarsk. In intimate pictures and interviews, he portrays a generation caught up between the mentality of the old Soviet regime and the up-and-coming Russia of the Putin era.
About the Author
Rafal Milach (b.1978) works as a freelance photographer for various Polish magazines, such as Newsweek (Poland). He has won multiple awards for his work, among them the the World Press Photo Award and New York Photo Festival Award and POYi Best Photography Book Award.
In 2006 together with 10 other Central Eastern European photographers, Rafal created a photo collective Sputnik Photos, to document, promote and spread knowledge on transition issues in CEE countries. Rafal is a lecturer at the ITF (Institute for Creative Photography) the Silesian University in Opava, Czech Republic.
Rafals photos were exhibited at e.g. C/O Berlin, Zacheta National Gallery of Art, MoCA Shanghai, Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Art in Japan. They have been also presented within Photoespana, Look3, Rencontres Photogrphiques dArles.
Svietlana Alexievich (b.1948) is a Belarusian investigative journalist and prose writer. Her most notable works in English translation are about first-hand accounts from the war in Afghanistan (The Boys of Zinc) and a highly-praised oral history of the Chernobyl disaster (Voices from Chernobyl). Alexievich has been awarded many international awards, including NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE PRIZE (NBCC), New York (2006, Oxfam Novib/PEN Award (2007)