I miss having a proper home on Christmas. Although then again, I’m lucky to have what I have. It’s not that the mantra, “Some people have it way worse” works. It doesn’t. It’s just that life is unpredictable enough as it is – and in Russia, the membrane of delusion that’s supposed to separate youContinue reading “It’s Christmas at Ground Zero”
Author Archives: Natalia Antonova
Check out Best of Russia 2012
I should just send a link to this annual photography contest every single time someone asks me, “So why live and work in Russia?” (And I’m not even a photographer) Here’s my top five from among this year’s winners, incidentally: “Forest” by Sergei Kosolapov, one of the winners in the Nature category. This was takenContinue reading “Check out Best of Russia 2012”
When we’re good, we’re good
He and his colleagues just won another prize for the “Winter Go Away!” documentary.
Happy Lev
Is here to distill the gloom and doom for a sec.
Against being broken
I’m not good at this whole “love” thing. I’m not good at this whole “family” thing. Not because I’m somehow prejudiced against these concepts, or because I find them boring, but because I’m a fractured person. I’m an old-time painting. Look closely, and you can see the cracks in the paint. I’ve discovered that theContinue reading “Against being broken”
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