STIG STASIG: RETROGRAD Until tires burned on the

Until tires burned on the Maidan

as Stephen’s new collection of work retains the vivid ebullience and masterful composition of his early pictures

chained murders and kidnappings

they are my personal encounters and scenes

) in Ukraine

STIG STASIG: RETROGRAD Until tires burned on theFrom the Baltic countries and Ukraine in the west, to Siberia far to the east, Georgia, Armenia and the Caucasus in the south. In the years from 1988 to 1993, photographer Stig Stasig traveled around the Soviet Union and photographed life on streets. Todays Russia is a product of its past: the tsarist era, the revolution and the Soviet regime, and not least the chaotic break up period around 1990. The only way we can hope to understand Russias