Landscapes of Protest


  • Photographer
    Maria Pleshkova
  • Prize
    Honorable Mention

Memory and place have always been deeply interconnected. The intersection of memory and place formulates an idea of collective identity. In 2011-2012, Russia saw some of the biggest protests since the 1990s. Hundreds of thousands of Russians took to the street to rally against existing state power and corruption, and to call for political reforms. I photographed certain places twice: first, at the moment of protest going on there, and later, at some moment of everyday life. Comparing the two pictures I explore the process of transformation of an ordinary location into a point of political or social focus.

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