Reportage
Reportage is not a sequence of events, but a point of tension where person, environment, and time converge. Each image here stands as a self-contained statement—a captured moment in which reality reveals itself without staging or repetition.
Unfortunately, my archives from before 2005 became inaccessible because of my forced rapid emigration from Russia, so only later photographs are published here.

Russia. Moscow Region, Ramenskoye. 2007. Zenit Saint Petersburg won the Russian Premier League title, and the surge of celebrating supporters broke a police officer’s legs.

Moscow. Tverskaya Street. 2008. Children on the roof of a currency exchange booth watch the parade. It was the beginning of the financial crisis.

Moscow. Leningradsky Prospekt. 2011. Rehearsal for the Victory Day parade. Armored personnel carriers pass on the right, while on the left a young woman in a sari has managed to slip through the barriers.

Moscow. Garden Ring. 2011. Shadows of police officers on a bridge above a blocked street during protests against alleged fraud in the State Duma elections.

Paris. Rue Gujas. 2023. Burning barricade of rubbish during Sorbonne student protests against pension reform.

Paris. Rue de la Sorbonne. 2026. Police dispersal of a pro-Palestinian and antisemitic demonstration.

Paris. Place du Panthéon. 2023. Students of Lycée Henri IV barricaded the main entrance and demanded a lower retirement age. It coincided with the garbage collectors’ strike.

Paris. Place de la République. 2024. Demonstration in support of Ukraine in the war with Russia. In the foreground, the left-wing radical feminist group Femen.

Paris. Rue de Rivoli. 2026. Demonstration against the ayatollah regime in Iran. Most participants were Iranian émigrés in France.

Paris. Hôtel de Ville. 2024. Migrant camp in front of the Paris City Hall. At the center, a refugee from Central Africa.

Paris. 2025. Tent camp for migrants set up by the far-left association Utopia 56, after an attack on camp residents and the arrival of police.

Paris. 5th arrondissement. Grand Mosque. 2023. Friday prayer during Ramadan. On such days, police place the surrounding neighborhood under heightened security control.

Paris. Grand Palais. 2025. Cleaner wipes the luxurious podiums at the major Dolce & Gabbana exhibition.

Rouen. 2024. Procession from Notre-Dame Cathedral to the Seine on the feast day of Saint Joan of Arc. The Archbishop, mayor, and city officials attend as the Archbishop casts irises into the river.

Paris. Rue Gujas. 2025. Good Friday procession. In the second frame, Muslim schoolgirls put on the hijab after leaving school, where it is prohibited.

Paris. Notre-Dame de Paris. Archbishop of Paris prepares for the first Christmas Mass after the cathedral’s reopening following the 2019 fire.

Moscow. Church of Saints Peter and Paul in Soldiers’ Sloboda. 2018. Blessing of Easter cakes before Easter.

Thailand. Chiang Mai. 2015. Thai New Year Songkran, when everyone feels obliged to drench one another and full-scale water battles erupt in the streets.

Paris. Night of 31 May to 1 June 2025. Celebrations after PSG’s victory in the UEFA Champions League final.

Moscow. Pushkinskaya Square. 2008. A supporter hangs a Russia scarf on the Pushkin monument during spontaneous celebrations after Russia’s victory over the Netherlands at the European Championship. Paris. 2025. PSG supporters climb the statue of Joan of Arc during the night celebrations after PSG’s victory in the UEFA Champions League final.

Magnitogorsk. 2008. Workers in front of the plant. In the background, red smoke caused by sulfur compounds.

Moscow. 2006. Flea market. Very little antique furniture and objects more than a century old remain in Russia, so the main goods are Soviet-era artifacts.

Chechnya. 2007. Youth football school of FC Terek during training. Many buildings had not yet been rebuilt after the war.





























































