Vlad Zorin travelled hundreds of miles to phootgraphy gay youth across Russia. See more:
— which Vlad worked on with curator Andrey Lopatin and supporter Ksenia Arturovna Chilingarovafor — is as much about identity as it is about sex. To compile it, he spent months travelling across his homeland, tracking down participants via, armed with questions about their ‘Firsts’ and ‘Favourites’. But what unfolded is a bleak and revealing portrayal of what it’s like to navigate queerness in isolated places, and how that can ostracise you even further from the few people you have close.
At the start of the project, I felt like I could not. Only after listening to these stories did I manage to become an active subject in this conversation. This is how my revelation came about, and why my own is the last story in the book. I realised that my artistic style has always been an attempt to overcome the barrier that existed inside: the fear to speak openly and freely about sex. In the book, I spoke for the first time, thanks to each of those who spoke to me.
Sometimes during our conversations, we took a walk. One guy led me past the window of his first sexual partner — it was exciting to be so close to the past, usually so carefully guarded. During the shoot, sometimes the guys either jokingly or sincerely asked [if they would be shot completely naked]. I was terribly embarrassed, but in my heart I was jubilant, because it was my goal to give these heroes a feeling of freedom.
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