The project ‘There Round the Corner in the Deep’ is assembled as a story about a city of nuclear weapons and a spiritual center of Orthodoxy. The author connects a number of time periods and historical contexts, her personal family history and the image of a closed city, incorporating pictures from her grandfather’s archive from the Cold War period, photographs taken in and around the city, and staged images based on facts, legends and speculation. Photographs become a metaphor for the cyclical nature of religious and state imperatives, while the city remains elusive in temporal corrosions of memory.

All images ©Katya Selezneva