Exhibition Kommunalka Project exhibition of works by photographer Peter Price, who makes a voyage through Russia and watches for everyday life typical of communal apartment, which seemed lost in the change of times and can not decide where it is: in the fierce thirties or modern XXI century
February 21 – February 28
project will plunge into the atmosphere of everyday life in a communal apartment, which will remain forever in the imagination of people the symbol of a bygone era when the very notion of comfort was relegated to the background, and the feeling that you have your “angle” – more important than the lack of personal space and the opportunity to be alone with yourself.
Over time, the communal apartment as a special phenomenon of Soviet life, changing, how to change along with it, the political regime and, finally, the state. Now cohabitation of several families in one housing – it’s not so rare. But still, the lives of these people since the old regime fell, and a new movement is just beginning its
Peter Price – a graduate of a German university, the photographer of St. Petersburg “Interpress” and London Demotix, a member of the Union of photojournalists Germany bild- editor of the online newspaper “Karpovka”. Last year, at the Frankfurt and Leipzig book fairs Kommunalka Price presented the book, pictures of which he will showcase at the exhibition in the loft Contour
WHERE:. Loft the Contour, Apothecary Avenue 4