searching for connection: the photographer who captured the decadence and conflict of Russia’s turbulent 2010s

He started his eponymous Tisshe virtually a decade in the past, when he turned to images in an try and catch the decadence, idealism, resistance, and social conflict he encountered both in his fatherland of Beryozovsky — a small industrial city close to the Ural city of Yekaterinburg — and throughout the country as an entire. He begun via sharing his pictures on Russian social networking web site VK, most effective to see his account turn into an unflattering archive of the 2010s: "a decade of tanks, fireworks, innovation and icons," he says. In 2016, he started compiling his pictures into annual brief clips, earlier than ultimately releasing his crowdfunded mockumentary The membership of Unemployment and Public Humiliation prior in July.