The Unknown - Russia 2003 (signed)

by Rob Hornstra

Photographs: Rob Hornstra

Text: Rob Hornstra

Publisher: Kominek Books

Year: 2022

ISBN: 978-3-9824542-1-4

Price: 75 €

Comments: 245 x 300 mm; English; Hardcover

add to basket

The Unknown presents previously unseen portraits taken by photographer Rob Hornstra in 2003, while travelling through the Russian region of Chelyabinsk. He was working on his graduation project Communism & Cowgirls, for which he selected mostly personal images taken in people’s homes. The negatives of his chance encounters on the street remained untouched in his archive for years. Two decades later Hornstra is wondering what has happened to the people he met? Hornstra: “The liberty that I, as a foreign photographer, had to capture random passersby has disappeared. The developments that have taken place since my first trip to Russia, from the assassination of critical journalists, human rights activists and politicians to the recent invasion of Ukraine, give those encounters in 2003 a certain poignancy. The former Iron Curtain is being redrawn. Russia has never felt so far away.”

“What has happened to the people I photographed all those years ago? How are they faring in today’s Russia, which has changed so dramatically since we met?” — Rob Hornstra

More books by Rob Hornstra

• 

  KIEV (signed)
  by Rob Hornstra
  sold out

• 

  The Secret History of Khava Gaisanova (signed)
  by Rob Hornstra
  Euro 34

• 

  Safety First (signed)
  by Rob Hornstra
  sold out

• 

  On the other side of the moutains (signed)
  by Rob Hornstra & Arnold van Bruggen
  sold out

• 

  Sochi Singers (signed)
  by Rob Hornstra
  Euro 95

• 

  Empty land, Promised land, Forbidden land (signed)
  by Rob Hornstra
  sold out

• 

  An Atlas of War and Tourism in the Caucasus (signed)
  by Rob Hornstra
  sold out

• 

  Billboards Sochi Singers (signed)
  by Rob Hornstra & Arnold van Bruggen
  sold out

• 

  An Atlas of War and Tourism in the Caucasus 'This is the new f...
  by Rob Hornstra
  Euro 55

• 

  Man Next Door (signed - last copy)
  by Rob Hornstra
  sold out

• 

  The Naval Base (signed)
  by Rob Hornstra
  Euro 9.50

• 

  Our Ancestral Home (signed)
  by Rob Hornstra
  Euro 9.50

• 

  Our Ancestral Home Special Edition (signed + print)
  by Rob Hornstra
  Euro 132

• 

  The Secret History of Khava Gaisanova (signed - review copy)
  by Rob Hornstra
  Euro 34 30.60

• 

  Life here is serious (signed - last copy)
  by Rob Hornstra
  sold out

more books tagged »portrait« | >> see all

• 

  Rivers & Towns
  by Mark Steinmetz
  sold out

• 

  After Children (signed)
  by Osamu Yokonami
  sold out

• 

  Paulo (signed)
  by Katharina Fröschl-Roßboth
  sold out

• 

  Mask and Face
  by Inge Morath
  Euro 24

• 

  Haddon Hall
  by Naomi Harris
  Euro 50

• 

  Feel the Body
  by Judith Stehlik
  Euro 39.00

more books tagged »documentary« | >> see all

• 

  Incognita (signed - last copy)
  by Luca Gilli
  Euro 42

• 

  Beirut, Epi-Centre Ville
  by Hans Wilschut
  Euro 35

• 

  Living Room (signed)
  by Nick Waplington
  Euro 99

• 

  Summer Nights, Walking
  by Robert Adams
  sold out

• 

  I carry Her photo with Me (signed)
  by Lindokuhle Sobekwa
  Euro 50

• 

  Epitome (last copy)
  by Vic Bakin
  sold out

more books tagged »Europeans« | >> see all

• 

  Vanished Spain
  by Carlos Saura
  Euro 70

more books tagged »europe« | >> see all

• 

  The Potemkin Village (signed + print - last copies)
  by Gregor Sailer
  sold out

• 

  ATENEA
  by Roger Grasas
  Euro 22

• 

  The Potemkin Village (signed)
  by Gregor Sailer
  sold out

• 

  blue as gold (last copy)
  by Nicolo Degiorgis
  sold out

more books tagged »Dutch« | >> see all

• 

  I will be wolf
  by Bertien van Manen
  Euro 39

• 

  Daughters of the Sun 2018 (signed)
  by Claire Felicie
  sold out

• 

  Archive (signed)
  by Bertien van Manen
  sold out

• 

  Sense of Presence
  by Rogier Maaskant
  Euro 44

• 

  Zillion
  by Thomas Manneke
  Euro 54

• 

  BORDERS OF NOTHINGNESS - ON THE MEND (signed)
  by Margaret Lansink
  sold out

more books tagged »social documentary« | >> see all

• 

  Living Apart
  by Ian Berry
  Euro 85

• 

  Youth of the Island Field (signed)
  by Tamara Eckhardt
  sold out

• 

  Pavee Kids Ireland - Ostinati Prigionieri di Sogni
  by Luca Manfredi
  Euro 33

• 

  Belfast
  by Krass Clement
  Euro 75

• 

  Allah O Akbar: a journey through militant Islam
  by Abbas
  Euro 165

• 

  Ta-ra
  by Sebastián Bruno
  Euro 48.80

more books tagged »Russia« | >> see all

• 

  Nomad (signed)
  by Julia Borissova
  Euro 160

• 

  He Had A Hat (signed - last copy)
  by Julia Borissova
  Euro 360

• 

  The Last Conversation with Academician Sakharov (signed)
  by Agnieszka Rayss
  Euro 33

• 

  NORTH LINE (signed)
  by Fyodor Telkov, Sergey Poteryaev
  Euro 72

• 

  25 weeks of winter (signed - review copy)
  by Ekaterina Anokhina
  Euro 45 36.00

• 

  east - west (special offer! - 2 books)
  by Regina Maria Anzenberger
  Euro 112 56.00

Random selection from the Virtual bookshelf josefchladek.com

• 
  Kazuo Kitai - Sanrizuka 1969-197...
  
• 
  Franz Roh & Jan Tschichold - Fot...
  
• 
  Germaine Krull - Métal
  
• 
  Pierre Jahan & Jean Cocteau - La...