Emine Ziyatdinova’s Photographs of Russian Émigrés in Brighton Beach

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In Brighton Beach, a Bittersweet Peace

Seeking to understand better her Soviet roots, the photographer Emine Ziyatdinova came to Brighton Beach to photograph the Russian community there. But she found it wasn’t as Russian as she first thought.

via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/11/23/brighton-beach-bittersweet/

But the more time she spent digging into people’s lives and dreams in churches, basements, nightclubs and on the beach, the more she realized that maybe the area wasn’t as Russian as she had first thought.