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A Russian Poem is a touching portraits & landscapes  série by  Lisa Sarfati, published in the very inspirational  The Morning News.

Lise Sarfati is a French photographer working for Magnum who has spent most of her career in Paris, with project stints in Russia and the United States. Her most recent body of work (and the one that might be familiar to most New York collectors) is called The New Life, a series of portraits of American teenagers from across the country, full of the sullen, anxious and solitary emotions of adolescence.

This shows (a russian poem) goes back a step to a series of images Sarfati made in the 1990s in post-Soviet Russia.

Images courtesy of Yossi Milo Gallery, copyright © Lise Sarfati, all  rights reserved.

What inspired the series?
It is a series that connects houses in the countryside from the beginning of the 20th century with portraits of young people, mostly boys, whom I met in Moscow. There is no obvious connection between the photographs. It is not really a narrative story; it is more a story constructed by elements.