Jana Romanova - Waiting - 2015-2015

Book in pristine condition, with no defects. A numbered print is included in this book, one of 500 numbered and signed copies.

For five years, the Russian photographer Jana Romanova followed couples who were about to become parents. Staying with them for the needs of the series, she photographed them in the early morning, still asleep. In total, Waiting [the Waiting] comprises forty photographs, one for each week of the pregnancy.

Young Russian couples living in Saint Petersburg and Moscow sleep in their bedrooms early in the morning, at a moment when one hardly cares about one’s appearance and presents themselves as they are. They are about to become parents in a few months, and the project explores not only their relationship with each other during this waiting period, but also how young families live in the big cities of modern Russia, twenty years after the fall of the Soviet Union, a country their children will know only through history books.