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Assignment 4 – A picture is worth a thousand words

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My initial submission for this assignment was based on a photographer by Alexey Vasilyev. The image is one from a series entitled My Dear Yakutia by Russian photographer Alexey Vasilyev. Vasilyev (1985 -) was born, and still lives, in the Republic of Sahka (Yakutia), a vast region in the north east of the Russia. After graduating in Philology in 2008 he went on to work for a local children’s newspaper The Voice of the North. Vasilyev’s interest in photography started quite late and it was not until he was nearly thirty that he started posting images on Instagram. In 2017 … Continue reading Assignment 4 – A picture is worth a thousand words

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Assignment 4 – ‘A picture is worth a thousand words’

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In looking for a photograph to write about for this assignment I came across the work of Alexey Vasilyev and in particular his series My Dear Yakutia. Vasilyev was born in 1985 in Yatusk, the capital of the Sakha (Yakutia) Repulic in Eastern Russia. The Sakha Repulic is a vast region with an area of just under 1.2 million square miles and a population of under one million. It is also one of the coldest places on the planet with temperatures dropping to minus 60 degrees celcius in winter. The series looks at the identity and daily lives of people … Continue reading Assignment 4 – ‘A picture is worth a thousand words’