Looking for Lenin...
Lenin.
“I’d say on average it’s one week of work for one Lenin,” says photographer Niels Ackermannn of the project, “Looking for Lenin,” Sara Stacke reports on nationalgeographic.com.
Jointly produced with French journalist Sebastien Gobert, the series currently includes images of 70 different statues of Soviet founder Vladimir Lenin that were toppled in Ukraine’s quest to rid the landscape of Soviet symbols, Stacke wrote.
Jointly produced with French journalist Sebastien Gobert, the series currently includes images of 70 different statues of Soviet founder Vladimir Lenin that were toppled in Ukraine’s quest to rid the landscape of Soviet symbols, Stacke wrote.
That’s about 490 days that Ackermann and Gobert have dedicated to tracking down and photographing Lenin in places like storage units, dumpsters, car trunks, closets, fields, artist studios, and museums.
For more on the odd quest about the early Soviet leader: http://www.nationalgeographic.com/photography/proof/2017/02/vladimir-lenin-heads-statue-destroyed-monument-ukraine/?utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=Social&utm_content=link_tw20170225proof-leninstatues&utm_campaign=Content&sf58460198=1#close
For more on the odd quest about the early Soviet leader: http://www.nationalgeographic.com/photography/proof/2017/02/vladimir-lenin-heads-statue-destroyed-monument-ukraine/?utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=Social&utm_content=link_tw20170225proof-leninstatues&utm_campaign=Content&sf58460198=1#close
Lenin speaking during the Russian Revolution, 1917,
Photos: Giphy, Pinterest.
Tomorrow on The Allen Report: New Study Underscores Benefits of Walking.
No comments:
Post a Comment