Andrew Polushkin - Memory Erosion - Photography

Andrew Polushkin, photographer and artist from Russia who works in a combination of new digital technologies and traditional techniques of historical analogue printing. He has had 13 solo exhibitions, including international Month of Photography 2009, Bratislava, Slovakia, ChernihivPHOTOFest 2010, Ukraine and PHOTOVISA 2011, Krasnodar, Russia. Memory Erosion is a straight documentary photography, and Reconstruction of Memory consists of complex multi-layered collages printed in old forgotten hand printing technique. Memory Erosion series has no manipulation with the original image. This is what we really have at our cemeteries. It is said, that the attitude to the deceased is a reflection of the people’s attitude towards their history. And those portraits with obvious traces of erosion perfectly demonstrate our common subconscious wish to forget our questionable and sometimes terrifying history. But this is just one of themes in this series. It’s like a bass part in the whole tune. The main subject of t