The magazine of the art-form of the photo-essay
July 2016 back issue
by Eric Lusito
“A free, really high quality photo-essay magazine. Fabulous!”
Stephen Fry. British actor, writer and film & documentary maker
Eric Lusito maps what remained of the militaristic power of the USSR from eastern Europe to eastern Siberia. His
photographic series, Traces of the Soviet Empire is a long term project and documents the haunting ruins of former
bases, monuments and equipment from length and breadth of the empire.
The work is based in the form of three series: the exteriors, the interiors, and the found photographs, images from
another time, another space and another world. They question us through photography, a technical process of
representation, the nature of decay, a natural process of disintegration and lastly ideology, a mental process of
manipulation.
Traces of the Soviet Empire
from Dead Space and Ruins - 7 July - 7 August 2016
Part of Calvert 22's Power and Architecture season (June-October 2016)
Calvert 22, 22 Calvert Avenue, London E2 7JP
57th Division of Missiles, Kazakhstan, from Traces of the Soviet Empire series, 2009.
193th Tank Training Regiment, Latvia, from Traces of the Soviet Empire series, 2009.
Headquarters of the Central Group of Forces, Czech republic, from Soviet Empire series, 2009.
KGB, military unit 93544, Russia, from Traces of the Soviet Empire series, 2009.
Centre of Early Detection, Latvia, from Traces of the Soviet Empire series, 2009.
Mig-21, 126th Fighter Aviation Regiment, Mongolia, from Traces of the Soviet Empire series.
Poster: I serve the Soviet Union, from Traces of the Soviet Empire series, 2009.
Private photograph printed from abandoned black & white roll of film found inside a Soviet military base, from Traces of
the Soviet Empire series, 2009.
Site 120, 44th Mixed Air Corps, Mongolia, from Traces of the Soviet Empire series, 2009.
Site 131, 2nd Guards Tank Division, Mongolia, from Traces of the Soviet Empire series, 2009.
Victory starts here!, 129th Independent Radar Center of Early Detection, Latvia, from Traces of the Soviet Empire
series, 2009.
