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Eric Lusito - Traces of the Soviet Empire
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Mandatory Credit: Photo by Eric Lusito/REX (4033703br)
POLAND / Krzywa / 2008. Abandoned Soviet military base after the collapse of the USSR. Krzywa is situated some 33 kilometres outside Legnica in south west Poland, near to the Czech and German borders. Legnica was the headquarters of the Soviet Union's Northern Group of Forces, and Krzywa was the main air base for those forces. With its 2,500-metre airstrip, the airfield could accommodate any type of aircraft.
Eric Lusito - Traces of the Soviet Empire
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These haunting photographs show the remnants of the once all-powerful Soviet empire.
They are the work of Eric Lusito, who spent six years travelling throughout the former Soviet world from East Germany to Mongolia, from Poland to Kazakhstan to seek out remains of the military installations that embodied the ambition and the might of the USSR.
Describing himself as working like an archaeologist, the French photographer says his project "Traces of the Soviet Empire" is a photographic record of the land and architecture - haunted by the symbols and history of a once powerful Empire.
The on-going project takes the form of three series: exteriors, interiors, and found photographs "images from another time, another space and another world".
What he found was colourful propaganda wall art, faded frescos of Lenin, discarded gas masks, and huge monuments, including those in the shapes of a soldier and a sword.
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