A White Road and an Ambiguous Narrative

After failing to capture his vision for a project, Ivan Sigal unmoored himself from his preconceived story and went on a dizzying trek through Russia and Central Asia.

via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/05/08/an-open-road-and-narrative/

“This project was born out of failure.”

That’s how Ivan Sigal describes “White Road,” which takes viewers on a dizzying trek through Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. He moved to Russia in 1996 with a documentary grant and a goal: to show, through photographs of landscapes and cityscapes, how “we build in a certain way because we believe a certain way.”