Rebuilding Lives in Former Soviet Lands: The Work of Bruce Haley – NYTimes.com

“Sunder” was released last week. Fifty-five black-and-white photographs depict a people and a landscape in flux. The haunting images, which were taken in various countries throughout the former Soviet Union, show abandoned industrial sites and decaying towns and villages. Children play in bombed-out structures; families toil in rural wastelands. A panoramic photo depicts a young man about to dive into the ocean from the top of a partially sunken warship. A piece of the broken hull pokes out of the water.