In the Russian East , 2016
« In the Russian East » is an echo to the work of Richard Avedon, “In the American West” (1985), Considered as a master-piece of the photography history, this work gathers a series of “ordinary people” from the West, (West-ranchers, barmaids, gamblers, tramps, to do make their portraits.
Thirty years later, Monteleone, at the manner of the American photographer, wanted to map Russia, the one far from Moscow, from a purely geographical trajectory; to go east, to reach out to China and the borders of the new “Empire” where Russians, Chinese and Koreans.
Monteleone crossed the large Soviet industrial cities as well as small and isolated villages, to capture, through faces and places, the evolution of new power propaganda in these detached places.
How do they feel in the Russian East? Do they have a different vision of life from that of their compatriots in the capital? In these distant lands, where nationalist echoes resonate weakly, Davide Monteleone shows us the face of a multifaceted, deconstructed Russia; with its extensive geography; its multitude of cultures, ethnicities and religions; its complex social dynamics and its incessant changes.
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