![Former rocket scientist Boris Savelev has been documenting Russia through his lens for the last 31 years.
His works of elegant observational realism are preoccupied with light and form – a constructivist aesthetic Savelev credits to his ‘methodical, scientific background’.
Both melancholic and playful, Savelev’s photographs capture the social and political upheaval of the former Soviet Union, by ‘simply having a gut feeling for that fleeting moment’.
[via The Guardian]](http://25.media.tumblr.com/MZLmbmQOLmk84jbiaGEim2gCo1_400.jpg)
Former rocket scientist Boris Savelev has been documenting Russia through his lens for the last 31 years.
His works of elegant observational realism are preoccupied with light and form – a constructivist aesthetic Savelev credits to his ‘methodical, scientific background’.
Both melancholic and playful, Savelev’s photographs capture the social and political upheaval of the former Soviet Union, by ‘simply having a gut feeling for that fleeting moment’.
[via The Guardian]
