Contact Sheet Print: Satellites, Altai Territory, Russia, 2000 Limited Edition the central lake on the

the central lake on the grounds of the Summer Palace in Beijing

I was more interested in the people

thinking my cameras were going to be ruined and made maybe a dozen pictures

the same sense of intensity is more complicated… You need to engage other tools

appeared in 1965

Contact Sheet Print: Satellites, Altai Territory, Russia, 2000 Limited Edition the central lake on theJonas Bendiksens series Satellites is the culmination of several years travelling across the southern borderlands of the former USSR to explore the unrecognized states, breakaway republics and remote communities that were born out of the collapse of the Soviet Union. The project took Bendiksen from Eastern Europe to Central Asia, including the spacecraft crash zones between Russia and Kazakhstan. This contact sheet features iconic images of villagers