Frank Herfort travelled all over Russia for a photographic project on architecture that lasted several years, taking pictures of skyscrapers that had been built quickly after the collapse of the Soviet Union. The force and magnitude of these buildings are bizarre, pompous and exotic; they evoke larger-than-life Soviet memorials. They express a longing for lost greatness and a new desire of showing off .
Biography
1979 born in Leipzig
2000-2005 study of photography and visual communication at the HfbK Hamburg and London
2004 scholarship in London
since 2006 freelance photographer
2006-2011 lived and worked in Moscow
since 2012 lives and works in Berlin and Moscow
“Imperial Pomp”
Frank Herfort
Published in April 2013 by Kerber Verlag.
Authors: Irina Korobina, Matthias Schepp
Graphic design: Martin Sebald, Berlin.
Format: 29,50 × 22,00 cm ; 128 pages
German / English.
ISBN: 978-3-86678-798-8
The exhibition: “Imperial Pomp” is presented from April 9th to May 17th, 2013
f75 fotogalerie
filderstraße 75
70180 stuttgart
Germany
Tuesday-Ffriday 3pm – 7pm
