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Russia, Coming of Age
The images on this page represent a photodocumentary project that began in January of 1993. From 1993 to 1995, Eric Douglas traveled throughout Russia photographing the people as they struggled to find a new normal. In 2008, he returned to Russia to rephotograph many of the same people and places from his earlier trips. Read the captions to see who is where now and how their lives have changed. In March of 2010, Eric exhibited this work at an international film festival in Moscow. This is the first time this body of work was shown in Russia. The exhibition was displayed at the West Virginia Culture Center on the state capitol grounds in Charleston, WV and at the Evenings of Russian Cinema Film Festival in Bordeaux France. Click on any of the images to begin the slide show. Second Russia article-- The Durham Herald-Sun ran a longer article on Sunday April 20, 2008 as the Perspectives section front. Page 1. Page 2. Russia in print--The Charleston (WV) Sunday Gazette-Mail ran an article Eric wrote about the Russia project on March 14, 2008. Read more. Read a blog of daily notes and discoveries from the 2008 trip, along with a few more images. Read a series of articles orginially published in the Charleston Gazette-Mail in 1993 and 1994.
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