“Two Russian communities on Spitsbergen have had their times of bloom. Now one of them is a ghost town and also the other one is running out reasons and will to exist. In this series these towns are studied subjec-tively as cases of risen and fallen utopias. Photographed on Spitsbergen 2003-. Work in progress.”
Ville Lenkkeri
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The current issue »Introducing« of Album, Magazin für Fotografie features a great interview with Ville Lenkeri. He talks about felling huge trees, the necessary competence for studying film, dioramas, panormas and offenbach.
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