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Khokhloma or Khokhloma painting (Khokhlomskaya rospis’) is the name of a Russian wood painting handcraft, known for its vivid flower patterns, red and gold colors over the black background, and the distinctive effect on the cheap and light wooden tableware or furniture, making it look heavier, metal-like and glamorous.

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Mikhail Skripkin The Solovetsky Monastery, Russia

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The Temples of Vasiljevskoe in Winter Daylight.

> Photo by Nikolay Sapronov.

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Moscow. ул. Миклухо-Маклая, общежития РУДН

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Soldiers of the Imperial Russian Army awaiting the Tsar outside the Catherine Palace, Tsarskoe Selo

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Michal Chelbin – Sailboats and Swans

Michal Chelbin’s latest body of photography, shot in seven prisons in the Ukraine and Russia over the past six years, explores what it means to be locked and constantly watched–and to be looking back at such a person in this surreal world within a world. Chelbin’s portraiture is renowned for it visual contrasts–old and new, odd and ordinary, fantasy and reality–and for unmasking the legendary qualities not immediately apparent in individuals. The title, Sailboats and Swans, refers to the idiosyncratic, and almost mocking, bucolic and fantastical murals and wallpaper backgrounds she found throughout the prisons. These contradictions of life in prison abound in girls’ flowery dress prison uniforms, murderers working as nannies to other women’s babies in the new mothers’ prison, young girls serving time alongside grandmothers–perhaps witness to their own futures, and the mesmerizing human blend of fear and cruelty in the boys’ and mens’ prison–where big tattooed bodies are now zombie-like, worn down by the daily travails of trying to survive being locked up in a world devoid of hope. (via)

“Chelbin is always looking, drawing what is hidden to the surface. She captures—we shudder.” – A.M. Homes