In the “Restricted Areas” has photo artist sought out places that appear to be fallen symbols after the Soviet pursuit of progress, “places not found on maps or travel books,” as it said in a press release from the Calvert 22 Foundation in London .
giant project is forgotten and decaying on the frozen tundra.
– I travel in search of places that used to be very important for technological progress, and which is now abandoned . These places lost its meaning along with the utopian ideology, which today is obsolete, writes the artist on its website.
– Secret cities that can not be found on maps, forgot scientific trumps, abandoned buildings that are almost inhuman complex.
– Any progress meetings ultimately its termination. It can happen for various reasons; nuclear war, economic crisis or natural disaster. For me it is interesting to witness what is back.
The pictures are courtesy of Calvert 22 Foundation in London that autumn, a series of exhibitions under the title “Power and architecture.” These addresses “utopian public space and the search for a new national identity in the post-Soviet world.”
Autumn program lasts until 9 October, conferences, lectures, exhibitions and workshops in London and Prague. For more information, visit the foundation’s website calvert22.org.
world’s diesel submarine. The picture was taken in Samar region in Russia in 2013. Photo: Danila Takatsjenko.
Memorials at an abandoned nuclear research station in Voronezh region of Russia. Photo taken in 2015. Photo: Danila Takatsjenko.
The headquarters of the Communist Party of Bulgaria. Yugoiztotsjenregionen. Photo from 2015. Photo: Danila Takatsjenko.
“Monument to the room’s conquerors.” Rocket top was designed by designed by the German V-2 rocket. Photo taken at Moscow in 2015. Photo: Danila Takatsjenko.
Abandoned observatory in Almatij region of Kazakhstan. Photo: Danila Takatsjenko.
Former residential building in an abandoned Arctic Science City that specialized in biological research. Photo Komi Republic in Russia. Photo: Danila Takatsjenko.
Test of polluted water in a lake at the abandoned research town Tsjelyabinsk-40. The first nuclear disaster happened here in 1964. This was one of history’s greatest and scope comparable with Chernobyl, but it remained secret. The city is surrounded by lakes that until today is contaminated by radioactivity. Photo: Danila Takatsjenko.
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