In this project the author presents a close specific space of a market place as model of microcosm. In essence, it is our daily life depicted in characteristic images. Here you can see poverty, wealth quick to show off, splendor, joyful color of youth and an inevitable aging. For example, an ordinary still life is perceived as some sinister symbol, while the photo of a sale woman looks like an elaborate portrait, akin to Frida Capo’s perception of women’s essence.

You get an impression that the Soviet Union is still alive in this microcosm in the form of a community of very different persons representing different nations and religions. Countries may lock horns in wars, prefer to live within their own borders, put barriers, etc. But the market place is a micro world, which brings all these people together. Moreover, visiting the market place is something like travelling across very different territories. Here you can see a concise version of the South, North, East and West, all Russia and the whole world.

The images and types inhabiting this micro world may be very distinctive and even weird. Here are oriental people excitedly offering fruit, vegetables or meat, next to them you can see plump healthy-looking women offering dairy products, beggars, shady characters and the police. Look further and you see gorgeous bunches of flowers, dry fish and a still life with fruit and vegetables.

All the photos are black-and-white.