Brightness (Rusland/Oekraïne, 2009-2014)
What does it mean to be Ukrainian, or Russian? In the runup to the current Russian-Ukrainian conflict Sasha Rudensky visited both sides of the border in search of an answer to this question. The subjects of Rudensky’s photos grew up after the disintegration of the Soviet Union – a period without a clear ideology. Do they define themselves at a personal and cultural level? How do they navigate in the social, political and psychological space between Western Europe and Putin’s new Russian empire?
