ALEKSEY MYAKISHEV: KOLODOZERO a fall down the stairs

a fall down the stairs of his favourite bar

This is a journey across unremarkable contemporary places and into their dark history: forlorn graffiti semaphores in a space once littered with casualties of battle

This visual survey is already her second book about the country torn between the EU and Russia

They are not a mere business

ALEKSEY MYAKISHEV: KOLODOZERO a fall down the stairsLooking for the emotions that underpin human society, Aleksey Myakishev photographed this story between 2011 and 2015 in Kolodozero. Immersed in the daily goings on of a village in north west Russia, the reader is taken on a journey to a time and location where life is simple yet profound.