NIKOLAY BAKHAREV: CHERYOMUSHKI Josef koudelka Grozny has become the Dresden

Grozny has become the Dresden of the Caucasus

photographer Sid Grossman’s family came from the area in Poland that her two grandfathers were sent during the war

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which began with the Erased series in 1998

In a strange way

NIKOLAY BAKHAREV: CHERYOMUSHKI Josef koudelka Grozny has become the DresdenNikolay Bakharev was born in the late 1940s in Soviet Siberiaa moment when artistic expression was strictly regulated. Orphaned at the age of four, he was placed in state care, where he first encountered photography after stumbling upon a plastic Smena camera. In 1970, Bakharev was assigned to a job in a steel factory in Novokuznetsk, a Siberian city dominated by heavy industry. Soon after, he began working as a photographer for state run Household