The Unknown (SIGNED)

Rob Hornstra
The Unknown (SIGNED)

Photographs: Rob Hornstra

Publisher: Kominek Books

124 pages

Year: 2022

Price: 68 €

Comments: Hardcover, 30 x 24,5 cm. Signed by the photographer.

The Unknown presents previously unseen portraits taken by photographer Rob Hornstra in 2003 while travelling through the Russian region of Chelyabinsk. He was working on his graduation project Communism & Cowgirls, for which he selected mostly personal images taken in people's homes. The negatives of his chance encounters on the street remained untouched in his archives for years. Hornstra: "The liberty that I, as a foreign photographer, had to capture random passersby has disappeared. The developments that have taken place since my first trip to Russia give these encounters in 2003 a certain poignancy. The former Iron Curtain is being redrwn. Russia has never felt so far away."