Silver / 2019 / Portraiture / Personality

• Prize
  Gold in Portraiture/Personality, 2nd Place winner in Portraiture
• Photographer
  Pavel Volkov, Russian Federation
• Studio
  Vechernyaya Moskva Newspaper

"My skin is like sand on the beach," he says and chuckles. And you listen and don't understand whether to laugh or is it not worth it. Lesha does not think, he laughs. What's hidden deep inside – behind laughs and jokes about the beach, as well as dozens of plastic surgeries, trips to the best clinics in the world–knows only himself - a boy from a distant Buryat village with a frightening name Coma.
In 2005, an inadequate father (either drunk or under the drugs) burned his two young children in the village stove. One of them died. Lesha suffered severe burns but survived.