Soviet Signs and Street Relics Photo-books Each volume will be dedicated

Each volume will be dedicated to an artist

I began documenting store frontsand shoe shops still standing unaltered through the passage of time

interprets and introduces the image of the world that is valid now

ambiguity and artifice

Soviet Signs and Street Relics Photo-books Each volume will be dedicatedFrench photographer Jason Guilbeau has used Google Street View to virtually navigate Russia and the former USSR, searching for examples of a forgotten Soviet empire. From remote rural roadsides to densely populated cities, the photographs reveal traces of history in plain sight: a Brutalist hammer and sickle stands in a remote field; a jet fighter is anchored to the ground by its concrete exhaust plume; a skeletal tractor sits on a cast iron platform;