Exploring eye: as the Soviet Union crumbled, it gave rise to a chaotic age of building. Yet poetic images of its decay spark an unexpected rebirth of ... An article from: The Architectural Review

About the author

Frédéric Chaubin is a photographer who was born in Phnom Penh in 1959. For the past fifteen years he has been editor-in-chief of the French lifestyle magazine Citizen K. Since 2000 he has regularly exhibited his photographic works, which combine architecture and travel. The research of the collection on the USSR was carried out from 2003 to 2010 with an intuitive process.

His work is mostly devoted to personal obsessions: Desorienting remnants of cultures, Bewildering monuments floating into space and time, Traces and shapes of stone and flesh.

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