Part 2 of the 2013 National Geographic Traveler Photo Contest

Brooklyn-based photographer Sasha Rudensky was born in Moscow, Russia in the late 70s. When asked why she continues to photograph in Russia and Ukraine, she has no better explanation other than being genetically imprinted to return to the visual stimuli of her childhood. She has an ongoing fascination with the contradiction, absurdity, and exaggeration of post Soviet space. This explains the theatricality of her work.