Twins Lena and Anya, Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, Sakhalin Island
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Twins Lena and Anya, Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, Sakhalin Island
Oil was first discovered on Sakhalin in the early 1920s in Okha. It is estimated that the recoverable offshore reserves of Sakhalin total 14 billion barrels of oil - just over one percent of global reserves - much of which will be used to power China,
Japan and South Korea. Sakhalin Island has attracted more foreign investment than anywhere else in Russia, as foreign investment than anywhere else in Russia, as foreign energ companies begin to develop its vast reserves of oil and gas,
building roads, pipelines, a gas liquefying plant and storage facilities. There is local and international concern about the environmental and ecological impact of the island's development. Lena and Anya are collecting signatures for a petition on
behalf of the Russian Ecology Party.
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
2010.0008.0041
Inscriptions verso (handwritten in black ink): edition 1/3 [signed]
(printed in black): Spectrum 2007/05/22 053 +3 +0 +0 +0 053.tif (1) 10:22:30
(printed in black): Spectrum 2007/05/22 053 +3 +0 +0 +0 053.tif (1) 10:22:30
