The Shortlist of the Alfred Fried Photography Award 2017
Waiting
Young Russian couples, inhabitants of Saint Petersburg and Moscow, are sleeping in their bedrooms early in the morning. They are preparing to become parents in a few months' time, and the project questions not only their attitude to each other during the pregnancy, but also the way young families live in big cities of modern Russia, 20 years after the fall of the Soviet Union, the country that will be known to their children only from history books.
Photos by Jana Romanova
Young Russian couples, inhabitants of Saint Petersburg and Moscow, are sleeping in their bedrooms early in the morning. They are preparing to become parents in a few months' time, and the project questions not only their attitude to each other during the pregnancy, but also the way young families live in big cities of modern Russia, 20 years after the fall of the Soviet Union, the country that will be known to their children only from history books.
Photos by Jana Romanova