ALEKSEI KAZANTSEV: RELAXING CHAMBER long term project published jointly by RM and

published jointly by RM and Fundación MAPFRE

from out of the recesses where corporations would let them fade

The harsh reality of the past merges seamlessly with moments of rapture that feel plucked from a Grimm fairy tale

the central part consists of photographs from contemporary Russia

Sohier illuminates the subtleties of human behavior and ordinary life

ALEKSEI KAZANTSEV: RELAXING CHAMBER long term project published jointly by RM andABOUT: Relaxing Chamber is a continuously developing series of photographs that revolves around one common theme: the idea of consciousness in humans and animals. The images are motifs of human faces and animal forms, often not immediately recognisable. There are claws and tentacles, thrusting out, stiffened, at rest. And there are people, surrounded by a black void, some seemingly asleep, some in an ecstatic trance, others in contemplation. The