Rafal Milach Explores Beauty and the Mundane of Russia

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Russia, in Three Cities and ‘7 Rooms’

To capture Russia’s rapid changes and vast territory, Rafal Milach went small, delving into the lives of seven people reconciling their country’s past with its ever-evolving future.

via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/01/18/russia-in-three-cities-and-7-rooms/

Contradictions lie at the heart of Rafal Milach’s “7 Rooms,” a project that took Mr. Milach, a Warsaw-based photographer, to Russia in search of insights through the ordinary. Though he wanted to avoid clichés — vodka drinking, prisons, cadet schools, ballets — some pictures reflect their Soviet legacy. And although he traveled widely through three cities – Moscow, Yekaterinburg and Krasnoyarsk – his project didn’t make sense to him until he narrowed his focus to seven individuals.