Nostalghia
Nostalghia, 2004
“Nostalgia isn’t just about looking to the past; it's about feeling the present as already past and the future as over.”
Serge Daney, “Exil en Nostalghia”, La Maison cinéma et le monde (about the film Nostalghia, by Andrei Tarkovski)
When this series of photographs was taken in 2004, at a time when the city was taking its development model from the great business centres of the West (“Ekat City” is today the striking result of this), these many layers of time were still visible: barely 15 years after the city opened, time seems to stand still. The passage through the nearby industrial town of Polevskoy, and even more so through the small village of Abramovo, completed the picture.