Congrats to the the winner of the European Publishers Award for Photography (EPAP) 2015 who is Russian photographer Danila Tkachenko with his project Restricted Areas which is a wonderful and haunting series of images on the Russian “technocratic future that never came”.
“The project “Restricted Areas” is about utopian strive of humans for technological progress.
I travel in search of places which used to have great importance for the technical progress – and which are now deserted. Those places lost their significance together with the utopian ideology which is now obsolete. Secret cities that cannot be found on maps, forgotten scientific triumphs, abandoned buildings of almost inhuman complexity. The perfect technocratic future that never came…”
Danila Tkachenko
Airplane – amphibia with vertical take-off VVA14. The USSR built only two of them in 1976, one of which has crashed during transportation.
The world’s largest diesel submarine.
“Bulgaria” ship lifted from underwater, 122 people drowned on it.
Via http://www.danilatkachenko.com/projects/restricted-areas/
All photos copyright Danila Tkachenko
The Photographs of Danila Tkachenko
