LONDON — I spent last month in the 1990s. My Facebook was flooded with a flashmob of photos of Russian friends as their younger selves, raving at Moscow’s vivacious 1990s clubs, working at Moscow’s vivacious 1990s media or arguing at Moscow’s vivacious 1990s debates. There were many thousands of pics, scanned from pre-smart-phone era snaps, leaving a visual effect where all the off-the shoulder t-shirts, high haircuts, ripped jeans and baggy suits seemed encased under cloudy glass, suspended as if just before a catastrophe.
Inspired by Colta.ru, something akin to a digital Russian New York Review of Books, the project had …read more
Source: European Voice
