Tag: Nadia Sablin

Nadia Sablin’s “Aunties” – The New Yorker

Nadia Sablin’s “Aunties”

An exploration of the daily lives of the photographer’s two unmarried aunts, who live together in Alekhovshchina, Russia.

via The New Yorker: http://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/nadia-sablins-aunties

This week, the Brooklyn-based photographer Nadia Sablin received the 2014 CDS/Honickman First Book Prize in Photography for her series “Aunties,” an exploration of the daily lives of her father’s two unmarried sisters, who live together in their childhood home, in Alekhovshchina, Russia, five hours north of St. Petersburg.

January 16, 2015
nadia sablin – two sisters

Nadia Sablin – Two Sisters

Nadia Sablin Two Sisters In 1952, my grandfather began to lose his vision as a result of being wounded in World War II. Wanting to return to the place where he grew up, he found an unoccupied hill …

via burn magazine: http://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2012/10/nadia-sablin-two-sisters/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+burnmag+%28burn+magazine%29

In the series “Two Sisters”, I record the stories of their present-day life, and explore the childhood memories I have of them. Their house remains virtually unchanged in the twenty years I’ve been away. My remembrances play a large role in the images I record now, following the rituals that have come down from several generations and which are becoming lost in much of Russia.

October 21, 2012