For the great Russian photographer Sergey Maximishin, choosing 100 of his best images for a book was too challenging a task to take on himself. In order to create an objective collection of his finest work, the 51-year-old enlisted the help of three trusted colleagues. The results are now on display in Prague’s Zahradnik Gallery. From a brooding Vladimir Putin to the flash of a ferryman’s gold teeth, Maximishin's photographs are at once journalism and art.
A Life's Work In 100 Moments
A model of the Kremlin built from ice, 2006
Ferryman, 2006
Intellectually disabled actors of the Naive Theater drinking tea in St. Petersburg, 2005
Sailors in Sevastopol, 2007
A woman yawns as she tries to sell a puppy at a street market in St. Petersburg, 1999.
Vladimir Putin caught in a shaft of sunlight, St. Petersburg, 2003. Maximishin says this has become his most famous photograph.
Animal remains at a fur factory near St. Petersburg, 2002
A theological college in Daghestan, 2008
A Russian soldier in Chechnya, 2001
A girl with a broken mirror on the shore of Zaisan Lake, Kazakhstan, 2005
Photographer Sergey Maximishin