Längst verlassene Orte, haben eine Magie an sich. Nicht zuletzt die Filme aus Tschernobyl sind der beste Beweis. Die Fotografin Rebecca Bathory hat sich auf ebensolche Orte spezialisiert.
Für ihren Bildband Soviet Ghosts war sie in der Ukraine, Bulgarien, Tschechien, der Slowakei, Ungarn, Ost-Deutschland und anderen Ländern der ehemaligen Soviet Union unterwegs.
Eine ziemlich eindrucksvolle Serie, wie finde.
Struck by the extent of abandonment in the former Soviet Union and its satellite states in the former Eastern Bloc, photographer Rebecca Bathory
sensitively and beautifully records many abandoned location within 13 countries which were once part of the Soviet Union or occupied. Including forgotten towns, factories, prisons, schools, monuments, hospitals, theatres, military complexes, asylums and death camps.
The former USSR with the fall of a Communist empire, places now lie derelict, uninhabited, broken shells of a forgotten time. The collapse of the Soviet Union left haunting memories of ordinary people who once lived and worked there. Rebecca’s work shines a light on a society shrouded by the cold war, offering a touching document of the daily lives of the Soviet people.
Alle Bilder mit freundlicher Genehmigung von Rebecca Bathory.