About The Book
Years Like Water is a decade-long look at a small Russian village, its inhabitants, ramshackle institutions, nature, and mythology. The series loosely follows the lives of four interconnected families, showing children grow up unsupervised in a magical wilderness, and adults struggle for survival in the same. For over ten years of visits, Sablin attended birthdays and funerals, drank tea with the grandmothers, and listened to stories of the villagers’ loneliness and love for one another. Her photographs from Alekhovshchina explore and describe a world that doesn’t fit into the neat narrative of “Putin’s Russia” put forth by both Eastern and Western media. It is more complicated – interweaving beauty, poverty, trauma, and hope.
Book:
-> Years Like Water
About The Artist
Nadia Sablin (b. Russia, 1980) is a photographer, whose work explores the larger world through intimately observed narratives, memory, fact, and myth. Her ongoing projects are primarily based in rural Russia and Ukraine, spanning years of children growing up, elders growing old and the practical ways in which people cope with the passage of time in an unstable economic environment. Sablin is a 2018 Guggenheim fellow, winner of the Center for Documentary Studies Honickman prize and New York Foundation for the Arts fellow in photography. Photobooks: Aunties – The Seven Summers of Alevtina and Ludmila (Duke University Press, 2015).
Artist:
-> Nadia Sablin
house, 2014 © Nadia Sablin
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About The Publisher
2023 sees Dewi Lewis Publishing celebrate 30 years as an independent publisher. Founded in 1994, it is a partnership owned and run by husband and wife, Dewi Lewis and Caroline Warhurst. Best known as a photobook publisher the company has also published award winning fiction with titles shortlisted and longlisted for the Booker Prize.
Its photography list has an international reputation and has included books by leading British and international photographers such as Laia Abril, William Klein, Martin Parr, Simon Norfolk, Fay Godwin, Tom Wood, Sergio Larrain, Frank Horvat, John Blakemore, Paolo Pelegrin, Simon Roberts and Bruce Gilden.
Publisher:
-> Dewi Lewis Publishing
