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At the Gulag History Museum (Moscow, currently inactive), one of my tasks was monitoring visitors through surveillance cameras. Routine observation shifted into a different kind of record: how bodies move through a place burdened with history.
I kept the images, drawn to what the system unintentionally revealed. With its rigid framing and flat tones, the camera reduced everything to the smallest traces — a pause, a hesitation, a passing presence.
The result is a series of photographs where pre-war visitors meet the weight of the past—seen through the detached but revealing eye of institutional vision.