Rob Hornstra is one of photography’s pioneers of crowdfunding and self-publishing. His latest book is on the restaurant singers of Russia’s favorite Black Sea resort town of Sochi. The series just won first place for the Arts and Entertainment—Stories category at the World Press Photo awards.
From violence in Syria to the New Hampshire Republican primary and Uttar Pradesh’s giant stone elephant statues, TIME’s photo department presents the best images of the week.
Boris Savelev, who spent his working life in the former Soviet Union as a rocket engineer, brings the same methodical eye to his photography and printing process. Color Constructions, a new exhibition of his work, represents the apex of his experimentation in printmaking.
In 2011, Yuri Kozyrev traveled to seven countries covering protests and uprisings for TIME, including Egypt, Bahrain, Libya, Yemen, Russia, Greece and Tunisia. Here, he writes about the remarkable experience and what all the revolutions had in common.
Located between the Dniester River and the eastern border of Ukraine, Transnistria is an unrecognized state of approximately a half million people. Photographer Kosuke Okahara documents a community slowly disappearing, caught between nations.
Excerpts from a collection of postcards commemorating the Soviet cosmonaut’s historic journey into outer space fifty years ago.
