At the beginning of the war, Moscow seemed frozen. A year and a half later, it’s not the same city it was before February 24, 2022. This is the continuation of Alexander Gronsky’s photo project
A year ago, Meduza published a series of photographs by one of Russia’s most famous landscape photographers, Alexander Gronsky, about how Moscow had changed a few months into the war. Then, it was almost impossible to see the changes, but behind his photos you could feel that something had happened: February 24, Bucha, the bombing of the Mariupol Drama Theater and maternity hospital. A year later, Gronsky has shot a sequel to the project which he has shared with Bereg, a cooperative of independent journalists. With Bereg’s permission, Meduza is publishing the series.
English version by Ned Garvey
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