A young gent who plays with Kalashnikov machine guns. A girl posing in her father’s vintage car garage, deliberately and impeccably dressed as Catherine Deneuve. Clearly, there’s something very different about the children of Moscow’s intelligentsia, restaurateurs and diplomats. Photographer Anna Skladmann spent years capturing that “something” and recently shared it Spiegel Online. Trespass into Russia’s exclusive ranks of nouveau riche and see the tiniest masters of those domains in her series Little Adults.
Anna Skladmann, Vadim on His Roof Terrace from the series Little Adults, Moscow, 2009
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[...] I just noticed in my 20 tabs open I have about six tabs of photo series. Instead of making a new post about each individual collection, I figured I would condense it and be more efficient by sticking them all into one post. This first series by photographer Anna Skladmann is a photo essay called “Children of the Russian Elite.” I love how Skladmann photographs the children in a way that shows us how different their childhood is from the average kid. There aren’t any sandboxes or dirt on their faces. Despite their young faces, you can easily tell that these children are more mature than their actual age and that’s something that I find so interesting about this essay. [Source] [...]
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