Opinion | No Two Rooms Are Alike in Ukrainian Prisons
Personalized spaces of the incarcerated.
Many Russians, even those formerly dedicated to preserving history, have come to think that tales of the horrors of the Soviet camps were overblown.
via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/searching-for-memory-of-the-gulags-in-putins-russia
Has corruption become so ingrained in Russian society that it is almost part of the nation’s genetic code? Using a panoramic camera, Misha Friedman explored how people accept corruption and shortcuts in daily life.
via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/02/05/an-x-ray-of-russian-corruption/
David Guttenfelder, Tomas van Houtryve, Ari Hatsuzawa, Seung Woo Back and Joao Rocha are among the photographers in “North Korean Perspectives” at Museum of Contemporary Photography.
via PDN Photo of the Day: http://pdnphotooftheday.com/2012/12/18179
Misha Friedman Tuberculosis in the former Soviet Union Tuberculosis is still a very deadly disease – especially in the former Soviet Union. The number of patients with very difficult to treat forms…
Link: Prix ANI-PixPalace 2011: Misha Friedman | Le Journal de la Photographie
Misha Friedman won PixPalace ANI-2011 with his report on Tuberculosis Epidemic in the former Soviet Union
After I discovered Misha Friedman’s photographs on The Forward Thinking Museum’s website, I began to see his name everywhere. Misha is the FTM’s winner of their first quarter 2011 photography contest, as the JGS Annual Artist and recipient of a $15,000 aw
via LENSCRATCH: http://www.lenscratch.com/2012/03/misha-friedman.html
Misha Friedman quit his job at Doctors Without Borders to freelance as a photographer. His images of tuberculosis in Russia, Uzbekistan and Ukraine are haunting. But Mr. Friedman isn’t sure how much good they have done.
via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/02/08/saving-lives-or-photographing-them/?pagewanted=all
Last summer, Misha Friedman began photographing in Donetsk Oblast, a province in eastern Ukraine, where he sought to document the health effects of coal …
via The New Yorker: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/photobooth/2011/06/misha-friedman-donbass-romanticism.html