The photographs in Boris Mikhailov's Red series were taken in the artist's home town of Kharkiv, Ukraine during the Communist era. I was particularly struck by the one below of a group of people wearing gas masks (I imagine as part of a drill). The red colours really stand out when you first enter the room and look at all the photos together from a distance.
In At Dusk, Mikhailov returns to his hometown after the collapse of the USSR and uses the colour blue in this series of photographs.
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