INFRASTRUCTURES
Infrastructures is a research-based
project and photobook exploring the political economy of post-Soviet
Russia, created in 2016-2019 by Sergey Novikov and Max Sher.
Combining documentary and staged photography, as well as writing,
they look at and reflect on both the political and cultural significance of physical
infrastructures such as roads, bridges, pipelines, etc., and
'infrastructures' of thinking, discourse, and practices that
underpin and define the functioning of the Russian power. The book
consists of 50 chapters, each with photographs and an essay in
English and Russian. By combining photographs and writing, Novikov
and Sher also explore the complex relationship and roles of
photography and text within one body of
work.
The book was published
by recurrentBooks in 2019 with the support of the Heinrich Böll
Stiftung.
A review in Russian in
Colta
