Irina Firsova

Photographer
People of the Soviet Time
Public Story
People of the Soviet Time
Copyright Irina Firsova 2024
Updated Nov 2011
Topics Dying/Death, Photography, Photojournalism, Russia, Torzhok, Uglich

People of the Soviet Time

‘People of the Soviet Time’ is the project, which explores the portraits of the people of the previous generation in Russia. The way the pictures are represented deprives them of the life-and-death-related melancholy and provides a certain flashback into the past, as if opening the Facebook of the past time.

Taking into account the social aspect, the previous century introduced tremendous changes into the social, economical and political life of the country caused by the Soviet Revolution, the World Wars, changes of the leaders and political regime.  Apart from that, Russia was locked up from the other world by the iron curtain and all that fact influenced a lot the people’s outlook, clothes, hair styles they preferred.

Though the pictures are getting old and fade, the people in the pictures still look frozen at the age they were shot. This project is an attempt to preserve the history launching a challenge against the time.

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