Histories of (post)socialism:
Working with family archives
Research project, 2020 – ongoing
Details
I began working with my family photo and video archives in 2020. This collection spans from the 1970s until 2010s and were taken in Osh (Kirghiz SSR), and Ulyanovsk, Penza, Orenburg, Belgorod, Kaluga, and St Petersburg in Soviet and post-Soviet Russia. What began as a project about family history eventually developed into an auto‑ethnographic study revealing broader patterns of mobility and processes in the Soviet Union, processes of militarization, or political economy of the post‑Soviet Russia.
Family photo and video archives, 1970s-2010s
Russian SFSR and Kirghiz SSR; Russia