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In 2017, publications of photo projects on Colta.ru will be divided into several blocks. The first of them, dedicated to the Ongoing Projects, or development projects, will represent long -term copyright works, which are currently not yet completed, which means that they can still be rethought by the photographer. And there is no guarantee at all that all the pictures presented in the publication will be included in the final author's selection. The published projects can be in different stages of readiness, but most often the author himself has no idea what exactly will serve as a final point in work; Nevertheless, we hope that comments and criticisms for this publication will be useful to the author to continue fruitful work on the project.
The first of these projects is Peter Antonov.
From the author
The series is a reflection on the role and place of the ruins of the Church in the modern Russian landscape and its connection with the perception of time and history in today's Russia. The exact number of churches closed in the Soviet period is unknown. If we compare the data for 1914 and 1987, it can be assumed that more than 48,000 Orthodox churches were closed or liquidated during this time. It is also not known the number of churches remaining in the ruins at present. One of the Internet resources dedicated to the temples of Russia is placed in the category of about 5500 churches abandoned, or one third of the preserved. The image of the ruin traditionally acts as an allegory of the temporality of all worldly in European fine art. The ruin of the church, so often found in the Russian landscape, becomes the personification of “Russian antiquity” - an era separated from us an interval of a hundred years, but as if not related to the present.