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Stand By/ За Беларусь: this short bilingual title (English-Belarusian) says much about this album produced by the collective Sputnik Photos. If ‘stand by’ evokes a sense of waiting (not to mention a nod to the International Code of Belarus, BY), it is a widespread slogan displayed on billboards. The unreadable mixture of two formulas on the cover, far from being a misprint, announces the content of the seven interlinked photographic stories, a game of mirrors reflecting multiple Histories, memories and identities in a society of 9.5 million souls too often overshadowed by the image of the “little father” Alexander Lukashenko, better known abroad as the “last dictator in Europe.”
Miriam Rosen
Read the full text on the French version of Le Journal.
Sputnik Photos
Stand By / За Беларусь
Postface : Victor Martinovich
Curateur : Andrzej Kramarz
Graphic conception : Ania Nałęcka / Tapir Book Design
Editor : Sputnik Photos, Varsovie, 2012
17,1 x 21,6 cm, 160 p., relié
1 000 exemplaires (dont 50 signés)
ISBN : 978-83-927485-5-7
Diffusion : [email protected]
