#lookingforlenin

From Looking for Lenin by @fuelpublishing - a Lenin head at Chernobyl nuclear plant #chernobyl @vice #lookingforlenin #lenin #leninopad #artbook #artbookdap #sovietsymbols

From Looking for Lenin by @fuelpublishing - @vice #lookingforlenin #lenin #leninopad #artbook #artbookdap #sovietsymbols

Trying to process what's happening in Ukraine and filled with sadness, anxiety and confusion, we're featuring a few @nielsack photos today from 'Looking for Lenin,' published by our Soviet weirdness experts @fuelpublishing⁠ ⁠ This eerie book captures the chilling beauty of Ukraine’s Lenin statues, toppled in the name of decommunization⁠ ⁠ Photographer Niels Ackermann and journalist @seb.gobert both based in Kyiv, scoured the country in search of the remains of these toppled figures. They found them in the most unlikely of places: Lenin inhabits gardens, scrap yards and store rooms. He has fallen on hard times—cut into pieces; daubed with paint in the colors of the Ukrainian flag; transformed into a Cossack or Darth Vader—but despite these attempts to reduce their status, the statues retain a sinister quality, resisting all efforts to separate them from their history.⁠ ⁠ These compelling images are combined with witness testimonies to form a unique insight, revealing how Ukrainians perceive their country, and how they have grappled with the legacy of their Soviet past to conceive a new vision of the future.⁠ ⁠ #lookingforlenin #fuelpublishing #ukraine https://www.instagram.com/p/CaXX2CwFQD9/?utm_medium=tumblr

From Looking for Lenin by @fuelpublishing - a fragment of a toppled Lenin statue #chernobyl @vice #lookingforlenin #lenin #leninopad #artbook #artbookdap #sovietsymbols

From Looking for Lenin by @fuelpublishing - a toppled Lenin statue @vice #lookingforlenin #lenin #leninopad #artbook #artbookdap #sovietsymbols

From Looking for Lenin by @fuelpublishing - a Lenin statue converted to Darth Vader @vice #lookingforlenin #lenin #leninopad #artbook #artbookdap #sovietsymbols #darthvader

Looking for Lenin by @fuelpublishing - the toppled statues of Lenin that are secreted away throughout Ukraine. Staff favorite reviewed @vice #lookingforlenin #lenin #leninopad #artbook #artbookdap #sovietsymbols