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igor posner – notes from underground | burn magazine

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Igor Posner

Notes from Underground

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It started in 2006, a year when I returned to St. Petersburg for the first time in 14 years.  At the time I had no idea what I wanted to get out of this place, photographically anyway. I just knew that I wanted to immerse myself into its cold, gloomy winter and take pictures. Trip after trip as images started to appear I noticed that somehow the pictures started to reconstruct this city’s heavy, yet poetic soul, like captured by Dostoevsky, Mandelstam, Bely, Brodsky and others.

Excerpt from a personal diary (February, 2008):

“Leningrad creates a feeling of a lost and a haunted city, an open nerve, where little tragedies of every day life that seem universal are so acutely brought to surface…with its bars, streets, drunks, communal apartments this place creates a sense of an inexistent dream within an authentic nightmare, and yet paradoxically conveys a feeling of poetic nostalgia and melancholy.”

Images used in this slideshow are chapter fragments from a book project about St. Petersburg (2006-2009) – “Notes from Underground” (working title).

Music by Alfred Schnittke – In Memoriam II, tempo di valse

Special thanks to: Olya Vysotskaya, Anna Bocharova


Bio

Born in St. Petersburg (former Leningrad), Russia, Igor Posner moved to Los Angeles, California in the early 90s. Early work includes photographs taken in south-central and downtown Los Angeles, Tijuana, Mexico.  Igor returned to Russia in 2006, taking up photography full time.

In 2007, Igor moved from Los Angeles to New York City. At present, he lives between St. Petersburg, Russia and New York.  Currently he works on two series: first, about Russian immigrant communities in Brooklyn and LA, and second, about former Jewish ghetto settlements in Russia, Western Ukraine and Belarus.


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Editor’s note:

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-david alan harvey

amazingly haunting and moving set of photos from Russia

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Posted on February 6, 2010 and filed under photo journalism, photographic essay, photography,

Proof of snow 2ft and still falling

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Yep, that's two feet as of 9am and it is going to be falling until 10pm tonight.

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Posted on February 6, 2010 and filed under 2ftsnow, blizzard2010, silverspring,

Craziest forecast I have ever seen. Ever.

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I am hearing 30 inches of snow where I am at in Silver Spring, Maryland. Glad I have a 4x4!

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Posted on February 5, 2010

Remo Williams Trailer

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Amazing. Top 10 best action movies ever.

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Posted on February 5, 2010

branches in the snow

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just buried slightly in the snow

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Posted on February 2, 2010 and filed under delicate, snow,

Who will save us?

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via Seth's Blog by Seth Godin on 2/2/10

Who will save book publishing?

What will save the newspapers?

What means 'save'?

If by save you mean, "what will keep things just as they are?" then the answer is nothing will. It's over.

If by save you mean, "who will keep the jobs of the pressmen and the delivery guys and the squadrons of accountants and box makers and transshippers and bookstore buyers and assistant editors and coffee boys," then the answer is still nothing will. Not the Kindle, not the iPad, not an act of Congress.

We need to get past this idea of saving, because the status quo is leaving the building, and quickly. Not just in print of course, but in your industry too.

If you want to know who will save the joy of reading something funny, or the leverage of acting on fresh news or the importance of allowing yourself to be changed by something in a book, then don't worry. It doesn't need saving. In fact, this is the moment when we can figure out how to increase those benefits by a factor of ten, precisely because we don't have to spend a lot of resources on the saving part.

Every revolution destroys the average middle first and most savagely.

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Posted on February 2, 2010

deadfingers sign in baltimore

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signage in baltimore near bolton hill

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Posted on February 1, 2010

trust vs doubt in baltimore

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which one would you choose to sit down at?

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Posted on January 31, 2010 and filed under baltimore, d90, photo, signage,

snow pets collage

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James Campbell
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Posted on January 30, 2010

photography showcase - snow pets with alexi murdoch

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Posted on January 30, 2010
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