Sergei and Kostya Akshentsv, Yekaterinburg
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Sergei and Kostya Akshentsv, Yekaterinburg
Sergei Akshentsv and his son Kostya plunge into a freezing lake having just taken a banya, the Russian equivalent of a sauna and a common daily ritual. When the heats begin to feel uncomfortable it is customary to jump into a lake or plunge pool.
Motherland
May 2005
Chromogenic development print
1/3
Image: 17.9 x 22.8 cm
Overall: 20.3 x 25.3 cm
Purchase with funds from the Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation, 2010
2010.0008.0111
Inscriptions verso (handwritten in black ink): edition 1/3 [signed]
(printed in black): Spectrum 2007/05/22 353 +3 +0 +0 +0 353.tif (1) 19:11:44
(printed in black): Spectrum 2007/05/22 353 +3 +0 +0 +0 353.tif (1) 19:11:44
