Azov Horizons - Chapter III | Patrick Wack

Over last summer, for Chapter III of his ‘Azov Horizons’ project, Patrick Wack travelled throughout the entire Russian coast of the Sea of Azov, from Taganrog - a port-city near the Ukrainian border - all the way down into Russian-occupied Crimea, and back.

This chapter follows last year’s Chapter II dedicated to the Ukrainian coast and cities such as Mariupol, which we didn’t know at the time would be engulfed this year into war and total annihilation.

This year’s series is a photographic study of the loss of meaning and current absurdity within the Russian warmongering reality. Visual symbols of the rampant fascism and propaganda are mirrored with mundane images of resorts and summer holidays. The photographer’s relationship with Russia is still young and resembles a permanent attempt at understanding: the language, the people, the society, and its current nihilistic collapse. This non-sensical absurdity might be the point after all.