Bertien van Manen: A Hundred Summers, A Hundred Winters
Sunday, January 6, 2008
Railway Station, Tomsk, Siberia, 1991 (from “A Hundred Summers, A Hundred Winters”)
© Bertien van Manen
Now up at Yancey Richardson is Dutch photographer Bertien van Manen’s A Hundred Summers, A Hundred Winters. From the press release:
Photographing in the former Soviet Union between 1990 and 1994, van Manen provides windows into Russian lives after years of struggle under the regime. Leading Polish journalist Ryszard KapuÅ›ciÅ„ski, who died last year, noted in his introduction to van Manen’s work that her lens stands apart from the typical journalistic report on Russia, capturing the “most inaccessible of places – the homes of ordinary people – in order to show us how millions of Russians live and sleep, what they eat, what they look like in their everyday life, in their flats, at their tables, in their beds.”
I’m looking forward to seeing the show before it comes down February 16th.
January 6th, 2008 at 1:23 pm
This is really interesting work. I’ll have to check these out. I’m also looking forward to see Walter Martin & Paloma Mu√±oz at the P.P.O.W. gallery. I am planning to spend some significant time checking out the galleries while my exhibition is up at Peter Halpert’s.
Thanks, Shane
January 7th, 2008 at 3:19 pm
Simply fantastic photography… I explored the site. The “feel” is very “real” in it’s rawness and lack of polish or technique. One feels as if viewing from some strange vantage point a life that one would normally never be able to glimpse.
January 26th, 2008 at 2:38 pm
No question, it is powerful work. I was in NYC and read about these pictures and went this past week. The crudeness of the photographers’ technique only adds to rawness of the captured moments. Nan Goldin crossed with Terry Richardson.