Kolion

• Photographer
  Olga Nikishova, Russian Federation

Village Kolionovo, Moscow region, is the place, where the past of the Russian village, which doesn't exist anymore, met the future, which didn't happen yet.'

Traditional money equivalent, such as a liter of moonshine, in the system of the village's natural exchange, was substituted in Kolionovo by cryptocurrency. Russian farmer, without breaking any law, by transferring a dying village into vanguard of the cutting edge technologies, took a government role in de facto.

This is a story of absurd as paradoxical, but often the only way of existence, in modern Russian reality.

Awards IPA Russian 2018
Professional Deeper Perspective
Honorable mention

IPA Russian 2018
Professional Deeper Perspective 3-thd

IPA Russian 2018 Professional Fine art /Collage 3-thd

IPA 2016(USA) Honorable mention Professional People/Portre