LANDSCAPE BEFORE, AFTER, AND IN BETWEEN

The title of this work refers to the current state of two old and adjacent industrial areas in St. Petersburg called Gavan and Chekushi. Gavan is Russian for 'harbour', Chekushi translates as 'rammers' (for reasons long forgotten). This state can be described as one of a certain historical intermediacy. Evidence and traces of three eras can be seen here all at the same time – industrial, post-industrial, and transitional from the former to the latter. The current Russian political economic system is such that one rather small area can be home to military industrial behemoths, small workshops, gentrified spaces of commercial and residential real estate, wastelands, and slums. In this sense, Gavan and Chekushi are almost a reference area still waiting to be explored.

See more photographs and a text here (in Russian).