ARSENIY NESKHODIMOV
Where are we going?

I started this project in 2022 in Istanbul, where Asia meets Europe. I took pictures mostly in Taksim Square, and within a few hours thousands of people from different parts of the world passed by me. This project lies at the junction of fashion photography and typology. There are already more than 300 photos in my collection, and the most beautiful thing about this story is that it can be continued indefinitely.
We often tend to make judgments about a person based only on his appearance, skin color or eye section, so I deliberately refused to use excessive visual information in this project.
I don’t know anything about my heroes, but, oddly enough, every back seems painfully familiar to me. Paradoxical as it may sound, but every nape has its own face.
I can’t say much about all these people, except that each of them is moving forward. In theory, this should fill me with some vague hope that we are all moving towards some goal but at the same time I have no idea where we are going.

Author
Arseny Neskhodimov (1981) lives and works in Moscow.
In 2003 he graduated from the Institute of Culture (Kemerovo). Since 2008 he has been working as a commercial portrait photographer.
His personal works were awarded by Welcome Photography Prize, Gomma Grant, Annual Photography Awards, IPA and MIFA among the others.
In his works the author touches upon issues of disillusionment and sense of alienation of the generation born in early 80s.

Website
https://neskhodimov.com/

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