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Dina Dubrovskaya is a 25-year-old self-taught photographer from Saransk, Russia. She is mostly interested in portraiture and recently has been working on several projects in which she photographs kids and teenagers. Her works have been published in Platform Magazine, GUP Magazine, L’Oeil de la photographie, and Der Greif.

Instant Yearbook: For the project, “Instant Yearbook,” I photograph the pupils of small village schools in the region of Mordovia, Russia. Village schools in Russia differ greatly from the schools located in cities, so this project started with my curiosity—with a wish to peek inside small, isolated places. But once I was there and met bright, exciting, rebellious young people, the project became about them—about their faces, smiles, thoughts and fears. Some of the schools I’ve visited will be closed next year for the lack of students. So this project is also a try to create a yearbook of sorts for them. For the portraits I don’t ask children to strike some particular pose, they smile if they want to, though often they prefer to stay serious and look directly in the camera. I try to show them exactly as I found them – at their desks, reading the books, passing through the dark school corridors, turning to meet the gaze of a stranger.

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Text by Lusher.  Art by James Concannon.  Portrait by Jonathan Mehring