Don’t Wait for Rain
Dmitrij Gawrisch, born in Ukraine and raised in Switzerland, writes about today’s Russia and the long shadow of the Soviet Union. In his reportage, reality surfaces through small, precisely observed details that quietly shape the narrative.
In Don’t Wait for Rain, three stories open onto distinct ways of reading the world. The illustrations draw on these accounts, holding on to a handful of fragments and turning them into subtly surreal images.
Don’t Wait for Rain
With prolonged waiting, the body absorbs time. One grows accustomed to a condition that does not change. The rain does not come. What remains is waiting.
Sotschis Soundtrack
In Sochi, behind the glittering façade built for the Olympic Games, marginal voices, repeated slogans and unintended ironies expose an omnipresent power the official stage tries to disguise.
Idyll in der Ukraine
In the Kuchurgan leprosarium, a relic of the Soviet era on Ukraine’s fringe, we step into the lives of the few remaining patients. Amid bare rooms and flickering televisions, we come upon a place the rest of the country seems to have forgotten.
Krim
A slow journey along the Crimean coast pauses in a seaside café once frequented by the poet Anna Akhmatova. The walls are lined with paintings. Between one cup and the next, a discreet stillness settles into the pause of the journey.
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