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Andrej Krementschouk - No Direction Home

After the stunning 100 years old color photos from Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorski, I want to introduce you to Andrej Krementschouk, who just has a book coming out named “No Direction Home”. He portrays his Russian homeland, where he is not at home anymore.

“I have to share something about this modest place that no one knows, something about me… . My house. I’m five years old. My grandfather, my grandmother and I are walking along a forest path that leads to our village. It’s hot. In a forest glade near the river my grandmother lays out some newspaper: boiled eggs, salt, slightly salty pickles, and dragonflies in the shimmering air.”

Andrej Krementschouk, born 1973 in Gorki, Russia, studied photography with Ute Mahler at the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences and has been a master-class student at the Leipzig Academy of Visual Arts since 2008. He was a winner in the contest “gute aussichten—junge deutsche fotografie 2007–08” (“good prospects—young German photography”) and has exhibited at venues including the Deichtorhallen, Hamburg; the Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin; the Drostei, Pinneberg; and the Kalmar Art Museum, Sweden. His work has been published in magazines like GEO, sleek magazine, and Chrismon.

(via photographer.ru)