Zona
2003
During the summer of 2000 and 2001 and the winter of 2001-2002, I stayed 6-7 months in Krasnoyarsk - Russia visiting 40-50 different prison camps, most of these former Gulags. With the help of friends and colleagues. Thanks to Sasha Kuznetsov, Larissa Tkachenko and Sasha Shubskaya.
KRASNOYARSK, SIBERIA, RUSSIA 2000
Camp # 27
KRASNOYARSK, SIBERIA, RUSSIA 2001
Camp # 27
KRASNOYARSK, SIBERIA, RUSSIA 2000
Camp # 27
KRASNOYARSK, SIBERIA, RUSSIA 2000
Camp # 27
KRASNOYARSK, SIBERIA, RUSSIA 2001
Camp # 27
KRASNOYARSK, SIBERIA, RUSSIA 2001
Camp # 27
KRASNOYARSK, SIBERIA, RUSSIA 2001
Camp # 27
KRASNOYARSK, SIBERIA, RUSSIA 2001
Camp # 6
KRASNOYARSK, SIBERIA, RUSSIA 2001
Camp # 31
KANSK, SIBERIA, RUSSIA 2001
Youth camp
KANSK, SIBERIA, RUSSIA 2001
Youth camp
KRASNOYARSK, SIBERIA, RUSSIA 2001
Transit camp.
Here prisoners wait to be transferred to a specific camp.
KANSK, SIBERIA, RUSSIA 2001
Youth camp
KANSK, SIBERIA, RUSSIA 2001
Youth camp
KANSK, SIBERIA, RUSSIA 2001
Youth camp
KANSK, SIBERIA, RUSSIA 2001
Youth camp
KANSK, SIBERIA, RUSSIA 2001
Youth camp
KANSK, SIBERIA, RUSSIA 2001
Youth camp
RISHOTI, SIBERIA, RUSSIA 2001
Camp # 15.
Prisoners village.
KRASNOYARSK, SIBERIA, RUSSIA 2001
Camp # 31
KRASNOYARSK, SIBERIA, RUSSIA 2001
Camp # 17.
Aluminium factory.
HAYRUZOVKA, SIBERIA, RUSSIA 2001
Camp # 26.
Prisoners village.
School bus.
SOSNOVOBOSK, SIBERIA, RUSSIA 2001
Camp # 37.
Agricultural camp.
HAYRUZOVKA, SIBERIA, RUSSIA 2001
Camp # 26.
Prisoners village.
Egorovka, SIBERIA, RUSSIA 2001
Camp # 28. Prisoners village.
HAYRUZOVKA, SIBERIA, RUSSIA 2001
Camp # 26.
Prisoners village.
HAYRUZOVKA, SIBERIA, RUSSIA 2001
Camp # 26.
Prisoners village.
Sosnovobosk, SIBERIA, RUSSIA 2001
Camp # 37.
HAYRUZOVKA, SIBERIA, RUSSIA 2001
Camp # 26.
Prisoners village.
KRASNOYARSK, SIBERIA, RUSSIA 2001
Camp # 27.
KRASNOYARSK, SIBERIA, RUSSIA 2000
Camp # 27
KRASNOYARSK, SIBERIA, RUSSIA 2000
Camp # 27
KRASNOYARSK, SIBERIA, RUSSIA 2001
Camp # 27.
KRASNOYARSK, SIBERIA, RUSSIA 2001
Camp # 6
HAYRUZOVKA, SIBERIA, RUSSIA 2001
Camp # 26.
Prisoners village.
KRASNOYARSK, SIBERIA, RUSSIA 2000
Camp # 27
Camp mascotte
KRASNOYARSK, SIBERIA, RUSSIA 2002
Camp # 27
NOVOBIRUSINSK, SIBERIA, RUSSIA 2002
Camp # 12
NOVOBIRUSINSK, SIBERIA, RUSSIA 2002
Camp # 12
NOVOBIRUSINSK, SIBERIA, RUSSIA 2002
Camp # 12
NOVOBIRUSINSK, SIBERIA, RUSSIA 2002
Camp # 12.
Tchournojar, SIBERIA, RUSSIA 2002
Camp # 22.
Tchournojar, SIBERIA, RUSSIA 2002
Camp # 22.
NOVOBIRUSINSK, SIBERIA, RUSSIA 2002
Camp # 12
NOVOBIRUSINSK, SIBERIA, RUSSIA 2002
Camp # 12
NOVOBIRUSINSK, SIBERIA, RUSSIA 2002
Camp # 12
NOVOBIRUSINSK, SIBERIA, RUSSIA 2002
Camp # 12
KRASNOYARSK, SIBERIA, RUSSIA 2001
Camp #6.
Shoe factory.
KRASNOYARSK, SIBERIA, RUSSIA 2000
Camp # 27
KRASNOYARSK, SIBERIA, RUSSIA 2001
Camp # 6
KRASNOYARSK, SIBERIA, RUSSIA 2001
Camp # 27
KRASNOYARSK, SIBERIA, RUSSIA 2001
Camp # 6. Wood factory
KRASNOYARSK, SIBERIA, RUSSIA 2001
Camp # 6
Nizhniy Ingash, SIBERIA, RUSSIA 2001
Nizhniy Ingash. (Kansk region).
Women camp.
KRASNOYARSK, SIBERIA, RUSSIA 2001
Camp # 18.
Hospital camp.
Construction.
Sosnovobosk, SIBERIA, RUSSIA 2001
Camp # 37.
KRASNOYARSK, SIBERIA, RUSSIA 2001
Camp # 17.
Sosnovobosk, SIBERIA, RUSSIA 2001
Camp # 37.
Sosnovobosk.
KRASNOYARSK, SIBERIA, RUSSIA 2001
Camp # 31.
Metal check after work in factory.
Sosnovobosk, SIBERIA, RUSSIA 2001
Camp # 37.
Kansk, SIBERIA, RUSSIA 2001
Youth camp. (14-18 year old boys).
KRASNOYARSK, SIBERIA, RUSSIA 2001
Camp # 18.
Hospital camp.
Eye doctor.
KRASNOYARSK, SIBERIA, RUSSIA 2001
Camp # 18.
Hospital camp.
Eye doctor.
KRASNOYARSK, SIBERIA, RUSSIA 2001
Camp #18.
Hospital camp.
KRASNOYARSK, SIBERIA, RUSSIA 2001
Camp # 18.
Hospital camp.
Eye doctor.
KRASNOYARSK, SIBERIA, RUSSIA 2001
Camp # 18.
Hospital camp.
Reshoti, SIBERIA, RUSSIA 2001
Camp # 15.
Reshoti (500 km from Krasnoyarsk).
First service in newly built Orthodox church. Consecrated by the bishop of Kansk.
Reshoti, SIBERIA, RUSSIA 2001
Camp # 15.
First service in newly built Orthodox church. Consecrated by the bishop of Kansk.
Reshoti, SIBERIA, RUSSIA 2001
Camp # 15.
First service in newly built Orthodox church. Consecrated by the bishop of Kansk.
Reshoti, SIBERIA, RUSSIA 2001
Camp # 15.
KRASNOYARSK, SIBERIA, RUSSIA 2001
Camp # 6.
Graduation day.
KRASNOYARSK, SIBERIA, RUSSIA 2001
Camp # 7.
KRASNOYARSK, SIBERIA, RUSSIA 2001
Camp # 17.
KRASNOYARSK, SIBERIA, RUSSIA 2001
Camp # 17.
Kansk, SIBERIA, RUSSIA 2001
Olympics for prison guards.
Kansk, SIBERIA, RUSSIA 2001
Olympics for prison guards.
KRASNOYARSK, SIBERIA, RUSSIA 2001
Camp # 27.
Holiday - vacation building. Prisoners spend 3 weeks every year in a special building with more privacy, TV, ping pong and sauna.
KRASNOYARSK, SIBERIA, RUSSIA 2001
Camp # 27.
KRASNOYARSK, SIBERIA, RUSSIA 2001
Camp # 27.
KRASNOYARSK, SIBERIA, RUSSIA 2001
Camp # 17.
KRASNOYARSK, SIBERIA, RUSSIA 2001
Camp # 17.
KRASNOYARSK, SIBERIA, RUSSIA 2001
Camp # 17.
KRASNOYARSK, SIBERIA, RUSSIA 2001
Camp # 27.
KRASNOYARSK, SIBERIA, RUSSIA 2001
Camp # 27.
Wedding
KRASNOYARSK, SIBERIA, RUSSIA 2001
Camp # 27.
Honeymoon room.
KRASNOYARSK, SIBERIA, RUSSIA 2001
Camp # 22.
Women camp.
KRASNOYARSK, SIBERIA, RUSSIA 2001
Camp # 22.
Women camp. Cinderella play rehearsal.
KRASNOYARSK, SIBERIA, RUSSIA 2001
Camp # 22.
Camp for women.
KRASNOYARSK, SIBERIA, RUSSIA 2001
Camp # 22.
Camp for women.
KRASNOYARSK, SIBERIA, RUSSIA 2001
Camp # 22.
Camp for women.
KRASNOYARSK, SIBERIA, RUSSIA 2001
Camp # 22.
Camp for women.
KRASNOYARSK, SIBERIA, RUSSIA 2001
Camp # 22.
Camp for women.
KRASNOYARSK, SIBERIA, RUSSIA 2001
Camp # 22.
Camp for women.
Nizhniy Ingash, SIBERIA, RUSSIA 2001
Nizhniy Ingash. (Kansk region).
Camp for women.
Concert, rehearsal.
KRASNOYARSK, SIBERIA, RUSSIA 2001
Camp # 22.
Camp for women.
KRASNOYARSK, SIBERIA, RUSSIA 2001
Camp # 22.
Camp for women.
KRASNOYARSK, SIBERIA, RUSSIA 2001
Camp # 22.
Camp for women.
KRASNOYARSK, SIBERIA, RUSSIA 2001
Camp # 31.
Novobirusinsk, SIBERIA, RUSSIA 2002
Camp # 12.
KRASNOYARSK, SIBERIA, RUSSIA 2001
Transit camp.
Here prisoners wait to be transferred to a specific camp.
KRASNOYARSK, SIBERIA, RUSSIA 2002
View from my room.
Egorovka, SIBERIA, RUSSIA 2001
Camp # 28.
Prisoners village.
Girl in her private room. She asked me to make a picture of her to send to her mother who doesn't know how she looks after 8 years of prison village life. The picture was sent. She said it was not allowed to send or to receive letters.
KRASNOYARSK, SIBERIA, RUSSIA 2000
Transsiberian railway. Prisoners returning home.
KRASNOYARSK, SIBERIA, RUSSIA 2000
Transsiberian railway.
Novobirusinsk, SIBERIA, RUSSIA 2002