The Best Milkmaid, and Other Winners of Belarus’ Strangest Contests

Before Polish photographer Rafal Milach visited Belarus in 2011, he’d intended to do a personal project exploring the history of his family, which has …

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The Winners is part of Milach’s larger, ongoing work that explores the influence of propaganda in post-Soviet territories. “I grew up in communist Poland so I was soaked with this propaganda as a kid and didn’t understand it that much,” he said. “This work relates to my personal experience of being manipulated.”