#Draft
The book by Dmitry Markov
#Draft
The book by Dmitry Markov
"The first book of the known Russian photographer and social worker Dmitry Markov is devoted to provincial sketches and social subjects.
The heroes of the book are ordinary people from the Russian province.
The book causes interest, respect and a bit of helplessness sense.
Extreme life experience of the author is honestly documented, through text and photos.
The openness and lack of moralizing about a complicated topic — the lives of people who, for various reasons, have found themselves overboard, those who are usually called marginal, is admirable.
This project is from there, from Russia’s collective past with it’s common joys and troubles.
We could all be in the place of the heroes of the book. To someone just more lucky".
Alla Mirovskaya
The heroes of the book are ordinary people from the Russian province.
The book causes interest, respect and a bit of helplessness sense.
Extreme life experience of the author is honestly documented, through text and photos.
The openness and lack of moralizing about a complicated topic — the lives of people who, for various reasons, have found themselves overboard, those who are usually called marginal, is admirable.
This project is from there, from Russia’s collective past with it’s common joys and troubles.
We could all be in the place of the heroes of the book. To someone just more lucky".
Alla Mirovskaya
"The first book of the known Russian photographer and social worker Dmitry Markov is devoted to provincial sketches and social subjects.
The heroes of the book are ordinary people from the Russian province.
The book causes interest, respect and a bit of helplessness sense.
Extreme life experience of the author is honestly documented, through text and photos.
The openness and lack of moralizing about a complicated topic — the lives of people who, for various reasons, have found themselves overboard, those who are usually called marginal, is admirable.
This project is from there, from Russia's collective past with it's common joys and troubles.
We could all be in the place of the heroes of the book. To someone just more lucky".
Alla Mirovskaya
The heroes of the book are ordinary people from the Russian province.
The book causes interest, respect and a bit of helplessness sense.
Extreme life experience of the author is honestly documented, through text and photos.
The openness and lack of moralizing about a complicated topic — the lives of people who, for various reasons, have found themselves overboard, those who are usually called marginal, is admirable.
This project is from there, from Russia's collective past with it's common joys and troubles.
We could all be in the place of the heroes of the book. To someone just more lucky".
Alla Mirovskaya
"The first book of the known Russian photographer and social worker Dmitry Markov is devoted to provincial sketches and social subjects.
The heroes of the book are ordinary people from the Russian province.
The book causes interest, respect and a bit of helplessness sense.
Extreme life experience of the author is honestly documented, through text and photos.
The openness and lack of moralizing about a complicated topic — the lives of people who, for various reasons, have found themselves overboard, those who are usually called marginal, is admirable.
This project is from there, from Russia's collective past with it's common joys and troubles.
We could all be in the place of the heroes of the book. To someone just more lucky".
Alla Mirovskaya
The heroes of the book are ordinary people from the Russian province.
The book causes interest, respect and a bit of helplessness sense.
Extreme life experience of the author is honestly documented, through text and photos.
The openness and lack of moralizing about a complicated topic — the lives of people who, for various reasons, have found themselves overboard, those who are usually called marginal, is admirable.
This project is from there, from Russia's collective past with it's common joys and troubles.
We could all be in the place of the heroes of the book. To someone just more lucky".
Alla Mirovskaya
#CHILDHOOD
"...I spent my childhood by the fence of a clothing factory near Moscow. The reinforced-concrete perimeter rose right outside the town's courtyards and stretched off along the river where the factory's waste gushed.
I have almost no childhood pictures. That must be the reason for my nostalgia when watching urchins in the suburbs".
I have almost no childhood pictures. That must be the reason for my nostalgia when watching urchins in the suburbs".
#ADDICTION
"...Some of my subject seem sad if not downright depressing to viewers. But they make me calmer — when I can render this sadness in a text or picture, I feel that I have less of it inside".
#SYSTEM
"...The structure of any closed community only tolerates defined roles: bosses, handymen, tyrants, victims, outsiders and so on. You begin to think: who would you be, had chance put you in a bed in the ward of a "second working" group? Many of the things I had thought of as my achievements were starting to look like favorable circumstances, a luck that could as easily have bypassed me".
#BACK COUNTRY
"...At first it was difficult for me as a city boy. We had no restroom in the house, and in the winter one had to run over snow to a wooden john. Without central heating I had to use a stove, feeding it wood, and singed all my fingers on cast-iron lids. The bathhouse left me feeling dirtier than before, and so on.
Thinking back on that time, I believe it was the most intense and exciting period of my sobered existence".
Thinking back on that time, I believe it was the most intense and exciting period of my sobered existence".
#SICKNESS
"...The news was not joyful, but, to be honest, not surprising either. I think I had stopped caring for my life a long time earlier, maybe even before I started shooting with other people's syringes. Later I would know some people who were dying, morally, decomposing from the moment of the diagnosis, long before the physical end. I could never understand them. After all, even without therapy there is a good chance to kick the bucket before immunity takes a fatal plunge".
#DRAFT
"...Back in school, I remember, sitting in the last row, I would open the notebook on the last page and start drawing. Then I would move on to the one before the last, then the one before that and so on, until the whole notebook had been filled. My photographic draft was something similar, except that no one punished me for a ruined notebook"
| #CHILDHOOD "...I spent my childhood by the fence of a clothing factory near Moscow. The reinforced-concrete perimeter rose right outside the town's courtyards and stretched off along the river where the factory's waste gushed. I have almost no childhood pictures. That must be the reason for my nostalgia when watching urchins in the suburbs". |
| #ADDICTION "...Some of my subject seem sad if not downright depressing to viewers. But they make me calmer — when I can render this sadness in a text or picture, I feel that I have less of it inside". |
#SYSTEM
"...The structure of any closed community only tolerates defined roles: bosses, handymen, tyrants, victims, outsiders and so on. You begin to think: who would you be, had chance put you in a bed in the ward of a "second working" group? Many of the things I had thought of as my achievements were starting to look like favorable circumstances, a luck that could as easily have bypassed me".
| #BACK COUNTRY "...At first it was difficult for me as a city boy. We had no restroom in the house, and in the winter one had to run over snow to a wooden john. Without central heating I had to use a stove, feeding it wood, and singed all my fingers on cast-iron lids. The bathhouse left me feeling dirtier than before, and so on. Thinking back on that time, I believe it was the most intense and exciting period of my sobered existence". |
| #SICKNESS "...The news was not joyful, but, to be honest, not surprising either. I think I had stopped caring for my life a long time earlier, maybe even before I started shooting with other people's syringes. Later I would know some people who were dying, morally, decomposing from the moment of the diagnosis, long before the physical end. I could never understand them. After all, even without therapy there is a good chance to kick the bucket before immunity takes a fatal plunge". |
#DRAFT
"...Back in school, I remember, sitting in the last row, I would open the notebook on the last page and start drawing. Then I would move on to the one before the last, then the one before that and so on, until the whole notebook had been filled. My photographic draft was something similar, except that no one punished me for a ruined notebook".
Publisher Treemedia
ISBN 978-952-68506-6-5
Hard cover
Print-run 2000 pcs
2018
Size: 20х20 cm
204 pages
Text in Russian and English
Photography & texts – Dmitry Markov
Editor – Andrei Polikanov
Design – Marina Gabasova
All photos included in the book are captured on iPhone.
ISBN 978-952-68506-6-5
Hard cover
Print-run 2000 pcs
2018
Size: 20х20 cm
204 pages
Text in Russian and English
Photography & texts – Dmitry Markov
Editor – Andrei Polikanov
Design – Marina Gabasova
All photos included in the book are captured on iPhone.
photographer, social worker, journalist
Dmitry Markov
Dmitry was born in 1982 in Pushkin, small town near Moscow (USSR). He worked as a volunteer in the Pskov region in a boarding school for mentally disabled children, as well as a tutor in the children's village Fedkovo (Pskov charitable organization Rostok).
Owner of the Silver Camera Grand Prix and PhotoPhilanthropy Activist Award.
Dmitry Markov started the account in Instagram as an experiment, without any photographic claims. Everything changed since Dmitry took participation in the Burn Diary's project, for which he captured the daily life of Pskov (Russia).
In 2015, Dmitry Markov received a grant from Getty Images and Instagram, provided to photographers working in the field of documentary photography.
In 2016 he became the first Russian participant in the Apple's Taken on the iPhone campaign.
Send your enquiries regarding exhibitions and prints to Nicolas Havette havettenicolas@gmail.com
Owner of the Silver Camera Grand Prix and PhotoPhilanthropy Activist Award.
Dmitry Markov started the account in Instagram as an experiment, without any photographic claims. Everything changed since Dmitry took participation in the Burn Diary's project, for which he captured the daily life of Pskov (Russia).
In 2015, Dmitry Markov received a grant from Getty Images and Instagram, provided to photographers working in the field of documentary photography.
In 2016 he became the first Russian participant in the Apple's Taken on the iPhone campaign.
Send your enquiries regarding exhibitions and prints to Nicolas Havette havettenicolas@gmail.com
Dmitry Markov
photographer, social worker, journalist
Dmitry was born in 1982 in Pushkin, small town near Moscow (USSR). He worked as a volunteer in the Pskov region in a boarding school for mentally disabled children, as well as a tutor in the children’s village Fedkovo (Pskov charitable organization Rostok).
Owner of the Silver Camera Grand Prix and PhotoPhilanthropy Activist Award.
Dmitry Markov started the account in Instagram as an experiment, without any photographic claims. Everything changed since Dmitry took participation in the Burn Diary’s project, for which he captured the daily life of Pskov (Russia).
In 2015, Dmitry Markov received a grant from Getty Images and Instagram, provided to photographers working in the field of documentary photography.
In 2016 he became the first Russian participant in the Apple’s Taken on the iPhone campaign.
Send your enquiries regarding exhibitions and prints to Nicolas Havette havettenicolas@gmail.com
Owner of the Silver Camera Grand Prix and PhotoPhilanthropy Activist Award.
Dmitry Markov started the account in Instagram as an experiment, without any photographic claims. Everything changed since Dmitry took participation in the Burn Diary’s project, for which he captured the daily life of Pskov (Russia).
In 2015, Dmitry Markov received a grant from Getty Images and Instagram, provided to photographers working in the field of documentary photography.
In 2016 he became the first Russian participant in the Apple’s Taken on the iPhone campaign.
Send your enquiries regarding exhibitions and prints to Nicolas Havette havettenicolas@gmail.com
