Misha Friedman’s Photographs of Corruption in Russia

Link: Misha Friedman’s Photographs of Corruption in Russia – NYTimes.com

Mr. Friedman has journeyed through Russia and created a series called “Photo51 — Is Corruption in Russia’s DNA?” But his images are not documentary evidence of corrupt acts. Rather, they are a visual tour of the ways in which public corruption manifests itself in people’s private lives, radiating outward through Russian society, touching ordinary men and women, and becoming the norm.