Photolucida is happy to announce our Critical Mass 2012 Book Award winner and the two Solo Show Award winners! In collaboration wit…
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In collaboration with publisher Kehrer Verlag in Germany, we are pleased to be publishing the work of Mila Teshaieva. Her Critical Mass series “Promising Waters” looks at the realities of people living along the Caspian Sea in Azerbaijan, Kasakhstan and Turkmenistan – countries establishing themselves as independent nations post-Soviet rule. Possessing vast oil and gas resources, the new, yet-to-be-defined identity of these countries clashes with the traditional – and Mila documents this clash with images of communities stuck in isolation and altered landscapes.
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Post-Soviet countries on the Caspian Sea face “the painful period of societal adolescence,” says Berlin-based photographer Mila Teshaieva. Twenty years after the fall of the U.S.S.R., countries in this oil-lush region continue to search for new national identities. Teshaieva’s project Promising Waters explores economic realities in three Caspian Sea states: Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan