Dreamers vs. Astronauts

You have seen photographs by Evgeny Feldman, even if you don't know who took them. The panorama of the rally on Bolotnaya, Alexei Navalny with 'Doshirak' on the way to the Central Election Commission, clashes with 'Berkut' on Maidan, the 'parade of prisoners' in Donetsk, the human chain in Minsk - an entire era fit into Feldman's frames, and no one else has seen so many of its key events from such close range. In just a few years, a teenager who attended punk concerts with a 'point-and-shoot' camera became the most famous documentarian in Russia - while the country descended into brutal repression and full-scale war. To honestly depict the main stages of this journey, Feldman risked his life many times and broke prohibitions. Therefore, the book in which he recounts his work reads simultaneously as a tragedy and as an adventure novel.