I currently live in Moscow. It’s a huge metropolis. Living here you get used to people, speed, vanity, the subway… Do you know that the subway is a whole individual city of people inside Moscow? And when you come to any village in the north of Russia, like Kenozero, you meet the silence. There, you meet amazing people, you are surrounded by the beauty of nature, and you just shoot the first picture and that’s it. You see to it that you will come back there again and again. You listen to these people, their stories, their dreams and you need nothing else. For me, it just happened that way.
Tag: Oksana Yushko
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Conscientious Extended | A Conversation with CPC 2010 Winner Oksana Yushko
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Along Russia’s Volga River, Back to the Simple Life – The New York Times
Along Russia’s Volga River, Back to the Simple Life
Oksana Yushko has been photographing Russians who have fled big city life to get back to the land – and basics – along the Volga River.
In 1997, Oksana Yushko moved from her home in eastern Ukraine to Moscow for an accountant’s job at a large herbal medicine company. It was a lucrative position, but soul-crushing. Every day was exactly like the next, she said, like a Russian version of the Bill Murray movie “Groundhog Day.” Seven years later, she left the security of her job to become a photographer, transforming her humdrum life into one of travel, adventure and no regrets.
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oksana yushko – balaklava the lost history
Oksana Yushko – Balaklava the Lost History
Oksana Yushko Balaklava the Lost History [ EPF 2013 RECIPIENT ] This project is a part of my exploration of people’s mind who were born in the USSR. Changing people’s mind is the most d…
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This project is a part of my exploration of people’s mind who were born in the USSR.
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Groszny – A Tale of Many Cities in Chechniya – NYTimes.com
A Tale of Many Cities
Three founders of Verso Images Collective document the capital of Chechnya with online guidance from Yuri Kozyrev and the Objective Reality Foundation.
via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/10/05/a-tale-of-many-cities/
Olga Kravets, Oksana Yushko and Maria Morina met when they participated in the spring 2008 workshop. A few months later, they developed a project which documents life in Grozny, the capital of Chechnya. The photographers were attracted to Grozny, Ms. Kravets said, because it survived two wars and is so ethnically and religiously divided that it feels like many different cities simultaneously.