Kazan In February

• Photographer
  Arthur Bauer
• Technical Info
  Digital Photography
• Photo Date
  2018 & 2020

Our image of Russia is characterized by authoritarianism, corrupt elites, and cultural backwardness. In contrast, we learn little about the lives of ordinary people. The ambivalent connection led to a photographic journey to Kazan – a city full of contrasts and possibilities, where Russian culture, Tatar tradition and modernity coexist peacefully. Yet beneath the surface of a city on the move, dividing lines become visible in everyday life: They run between a Soviet-socialized generation and a youth culturally oriented towards the West. Between material status and artistic self-realization.