As a sequence “Zhili Byli” (Once upon a time…) combines images of contemporary living and housing conditions with a series of portraits of residents from the city of Arkhangelsk. The city in northwest Russia is plunged into freezing temperatures for eight months a year, sometimes as low as 40 degrees below zero. The climate makes for an extreme contrast between indoor and outdoor life. Inside pre-fab buildings or wooden houses residents have created cave-like havens of intimacy and comfort where they spend most of the year, while the world on the outside seems strangely neglected.
EXHIBITION
In part of Boutographies 2015
André Lützen
Zhili Byli
4 – 26 April, 2015
La Panacée
14 rue de l’école de Pharmacie
34000 Montpellier
France
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