Two poetic and beautiful books "No Direction Home" by Andrej Krementschouk (2009) with introduction text from Boris Mikhailov and Photobook "Zhili Byli" by André Lützen SIGNED (2014) "No Direction Home" by Andrej Krementschouk (2009) with introduction text from Boris Mikhailov In his award-winning photographic work 'No Direction Home' (working title: 'At Your House'), Andrej Krementschouk explores his Russian homeland, which he left and which is no longer home to him. In poignant images, he poses the ever-relevant questions of memory and loss, of emotional roots and cultural identity. Andrej Krementschouk (born 1973 in Gorky) initially studied photography with Ute Mahler at the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences and, since 2008, at the Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig. Publisher ‏ : ‎ KEHRER Verlag Publication date ‏ : ‎ 2009 Edition ‏ : ‎ 1st Language ‏ : ‎ English Print length ‏ : ‎ 120 pages ISBN ‏ : ‎ 3868280561 Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 27.94 x 23.37 cm Photobook "Zhili Byli" by André Lützen SIGNED (2014) Arkhangelsk / Russia / 225 km to the Arctic Circle. This is how André Lützen begins his book, "Zhili Byli" (The North), and that's precisely what it's about. The photographer traveled far north in Russia and spent time in a place that is little known and rarely found in travel guides. It's cold and wet, the river is frozen, the streets are gray, and at night a lone billboard glows—without any advertising. People live in prefabricated apartment blocks or simple wooden houses, the paint peeling in the stairwells. Nevertheless, people live here; the city has 350,000 inhabitants, who have settled into their houses and apartments, prepared for the long, cold months. Bedroom, living room, kitchen, bathroom. Patterned wallpaper, a desk, a television, a piano, pictures on the wall, food on the table. The residents of Arkhangelsk invited the photographer into their homes, and he took pictures that simply show how they live. Living space, indoors and out, and how people make themselves at home in it. Somewhere in Russia. This is what this beautiful book shows, and that's what makes it so compelling—precisely because it's so unspectacular. In his essay, "Train Journey from Nowhere to Nowhere," Leonid A. Klimov recounts his mixed feelings about his remote, cold homeland, which remains his home even though he hasn't lived there for a long time. Primarily because of the people. Publisher: Peperoni books Publication date ‏ : ‎ 2014 Edition ‏ : ‎ 1st Language ‏ : ‎ English Print length ‏ : ‎ 88 pages ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 3941825666 Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 21.5 x 24.1 cm Condition: very good with some traces of usage