Jana Romanova - Waiting - 2015-2015

Book in perfect condition, without defects. A numbered print is included with this book, one of the 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 purposes of the series, she photographed them early in the morning, still asleep. In total, 'Waiting' [the wait] comprises forty photographs, one for each week of the pregnancy.

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