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Lyudmila and Natasha: Russian Lives
Lyudmila and Natasha: Russian Lives
Lyudmila and Natasha: Russian Lives
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The photojournalist Misha Friedman is renowned for his efforts to capture life in contemporary Russia, documenting subjects as varied as political corruption, the dangers of coal mining, the tuberculosis epidemic, and the Bolshoi Ballet. In publications ranging from the New York Times, the Washington Post, Time, and the New Yorker, Friedman's grimly evocative black-and-white images—“intimate, behind-the-scenes photos” (Time)—have been credited with capturing moments of intense pathos, bleak existence, and human dignity. He has received multiple international awards for his “unflinching” lens and his intrepid reporting.

For his new collection of photographs, Lyudmila and Natasha, Friedman trains his lens on a gay couple living on Saint Petersburg, offering a series of intimate snapshots of their relationship as it unfolds over the course of a year. Faced with a hostile political climate, financial difficulties, and often unstable living arrangements, the subjects of this stunning book reveal the possibilities for love in the most uncertain of times. With the fabled city of Saint Petersburg as its backdrop, Lyudmila and Natasha powerfully evokes both a vital place and the people who call it home.

Lyudmila and Natasha was designed by Emerson, Wajdowicz Studios (EWS).
LanguageEnglish
PublisherThe New Press
Release dateFeb 17, 2015
ISBN9781620970546
Lyudmila and Natasha: Russian Lives
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Misha Friedman

Misha Friedman is an award-winning documentary photographer whose photographs have appeared in the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, and the New Yorker, among other publications. The author of Lyudmila and Natasha: Russian Lives and Two Women in Their Time: The Belarus Free Theatre and the Art of Resistance (both published by The New Press), he lives in New York City.

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    Lyudmila and Natasha - Misha Friedman

    Preface

    By Jon Stryker

    The photographs in this book and future books anticipated in this series are part of a larger collective body of commissioned work by some of the world’s most gifted contemporary photojournalists. The project was born out of conversations that I had with Jurek Wajdowicz. He is an accomplished art photographer and frequent collaborator of mine, and I am a lover of and collector of photography. I owe a great debt to Jurek and his design partner, Lisa LaRochelle, in bringing this book series to life.

    Both Jurek and I have been extremely active in social justice causes—I as an activist and philanthropist and he as a creative collaborator with some of the household names in social change. Together we set out with an ambitious goal to explore and illuminate the most intimate and personal dimensions of self, still too often treated as taboo: gender identity and expression and sexual orientation. These books will reveal the amazing multiplicity in these core aspects of our being, played out against a vast array of distinct and varied cultures and customs from around the world.

    Photography is a powerful medium for communication that can transform our understanding and awareness of the world we live in. We believe the photographs in this series will forever alter our perceptions of the arbitrary boundaries that we draw between others and ourselves and, at the same time, delight us with the broad spectrum of possibility for how we live our lives and love one another.

    We are honored to have Misha Friedman as a collaborator in Lyudmila and Natasha. He, and the other photographers among our partners are more than craftsmen; they are communicators, translators, and facilitators of the kind of exchange that we hope will eventually allow all the world’s peoples to live in greater harmony.

    Introduction

    By Jeff Sharlet

    Here is a book about a couple, Lyudmila and Natasha, who appear in these photographs to be in love with one another, and who say they are in love, and

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