Sturgeon poachers, Kozyrevsk, Kamchatka
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Sturgeon poachers, Kozyrevsk, Kamchatka
While Kamchatka was shrouded in military secrecy, its animal population was left to flourish. Bears roam Kamchatka's interior, while its rivers host one of the world's largest annual runs of spawning salmon. For poachers like Kolya and Zhena,
the valuable red salmon eggs offer an escape from unemployment and poverty. On the open market in Kamchatka's capital, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, caviar sells for up to $15 a kilo, while in Moscow it can sell for five times as much.
Motherland
October 2004
Chromogenic development print
1/3
Image: 22.7 x 18.2 cm
Overall: 25.3 x 20.3 cm
Purchase with funds from the Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation, 2010
2010.0008.0030
Inscriptions verso (handwritten in black ink): edition 1/3 [signed]
(printed in black): Spectrum 2007/05/22 048 +3 +0 +0 +0 048.tif (1) 10:22:07
(printed in black): Spectrum 2007/05/22 048 +3 +0 +0 +0 048.tif (1) 10:22:07
