Siberia As You’ve Never Seen It Before

[ashling]

Siberia is about more than gulags and cold weather. As the exhibition “Siberia in the Eyes of Russian Photographers” at the American University Museum shows, the expansive Russian region is incredibly diverse, remarkably beautiful, and (believe it or not) quite warm during the summer. “Notions of Siberia in the United States come from Hollywood,” said Anton Fedyashin, executive director of the Initiative for Russian Culture at American University. “They come from films that emphasize the morbid exoticism of Siberia, the endless white plains, the sparse villages. Those are the kinds of images that are most widespread in the West. Of course, Siberia during winter does look like that, but there’s another side of the story.”

Vladivostok, 2009


Koryak Foothills, Kamchatka, 2000


Baptism in Vissarion Sect, City of the Sun, Krasnoyarsk Territory, late 1990s

http://www.slate.com/blogs/behold/2013/12/02/_siberia_in_the_eyes_of_russian_photographers_at_the_american_university.html

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actually, the first picture seems much older than indicated by the caption.


MFM on vacation as a kid.

[sakabatou]

1. The last picture almost looks like the priest is about to perform an Alabama Slam

[Chan790]

2. So, I'm not the only one that noticed he's whipping that kid around aggressively.

I was thinking hammer-throw but some sort of slam into the water is not out of the question.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

3. Amen!

[ashling]

4. Obviously the boy

is levitating (much like the guy in the first picture) and the priest is just trying to keep him from floating away.

[sakabatou]

6. No, he's being beamed to a ufo and the priest is holding him back

[Hayabusa]

17. The newest Olympic sport:

Child tossing. Into rivers of course, so they're not hurt more than a bellyflop would...

[gtar100]

23. So baptisms are done by flinging the child out into the water as far as possible. Yes, I did not

know this about Siberia. Must be part of the summer festivities.

[DrDebug]

5. But they forgot to mention the 1000s of mosquitos during the summer

http://www.thepolarisproject.org/the-prowess-of-siberian-mosquitoes/

[ConcernedCanuk]

10. Well, WE get them AND Blackflies in Northern Ontario - yes, THOUSANDS.

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But I rarely get bit.

Dress properly, don't happen.

Don't use perfumed soaps, deodorants, colognes - ANYTHING that "smells nice".

On super hot days where I want to be outside, and it is too warm to "dress properly",

I smother myself in baby oil, from below the eyes downwards, and wear only what I call "Greaser Shorts" -

baby oil is greasy - but you never get bit.

NOBODY in the Bug World likes Baby Oil.

Mosquitos jump off ya as soon as they touch the skin, stupid blackflies wander around in the grease till they die, wasps, hornets, deer flies, horse flies - whatever - they won't land for more than a nanosecond - then they are gone.

Funny thing - after a while, the larger guys stop even buzzing around, as if they communicate with each other

hmmm, eh?

The ONLY place I use bug dope is above my eyes, and in my hair, but most of it will go on a hat I will always wear in bug season - (you got it - my Greaser Hat! )

Although messy, Baby Oil is MUCH cheaper than any bug dope remedy, and should not have to say it, but I will,

IT's SKIN FRIENDLY!

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[Ace Acme]

14. Bugs usually eat me alive for the first week I'm in the woods

After that they pretty much leave me alone. I think the body synthesizes its own bug repellant.

Eating garlic might help too.

[Lucky Luciano]

7. I would love to trek in Siberia for six months and really explore! nt

[Blue_In_AK]

8. Kamchatka looks identical to interior Alaska

The second picture could easily have been Denali National Park.

[krispos42]

9. So it's like the American Midwest

Only a bit more sparsely populated.

You betcha!

[ConcernedCanuk]

11. First picture apears to be from 2009

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Underneath the original picture reads:

Sergei Maximishin

Vladivostok, 2009

http://www.american.edu/cas/museum/gallery/SIBERIA.cfm

Article is titled: "SIBERIA in the Eyes of Russian Photographers
November 5 to December 15, 2013"

A few more pictures, and links to MANY more at the above link.

A sample from my link:



Alexander Kuznetsov

Holiday, Vissarion sect, City of the Sun, Krasnoyarsk Territory, 2006

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[Spitfire of ATJ]

12. Say "Russia" to most Americans and they think of Red Square....

Most of Russia actually looks like Canada.



There is a REASON the bear is a symbol.

[JimboBillyBubbaBob]

13. That kid using the woman's...

...breasts for handles, in the first photo, is quite functional.

[Ace Acme]

15. Some say that's why homo sapiens evolved them--

to give the baby something to hang on to while her mother was using her arms gathering (or carrying) food

[Locut0s]

18. Glad I'm not the only one who noticed :D nt.

[ashling]

19. look at the OP

actually, the first picture seems much older than indicated by the caption.


MFM on vacation as a kid.

[BainsBane]

16. I'm wondering why the statue is in a lake

[petronius]

22. It's a Russian version of the Little Mermaid, I think... (nt)

[whistler162]

20. All taken during the summer.......

whatever day that was in those years!

[nolabear]

21. Suuuuuure, come to Sunny Siberia! That's right, sunny...yeah.

Bring the kids! Lots of fun activities!

[Kurovski]

24. K&R

Are those kittens in a pasta bowl? Is that some kind of perverted, furry sushi?

I admit to wanting to bite them. Just a tiny nibble.