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Fruit Garden - a photo book

The most recent Sputnik Photos book about former USSR countries, nature and oppression.

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Fruit Garden - a photo book

Fruit Garden - a photo book

Fruit Garden - a photo book

Fruit Garden - a photo book

Fruit Garden - a photo book

The most recent Sputnik Photos book about former USSR countries, nature and oppression.

The most recent Sputnik Photos book about former USSR countries, nature and oppression.

The most recent Sputnik Photos book about former USSR countries, nature and oppression.

The most recent Sputnik Photos book about former USSR countries, nature and oppression.

Michal Luczak
Michal Luczak
Michal Luczak
Michal Luczak
2 Campaigns |
Warsaw, Poland
$9,835 USD $9,835 USD by 177 backers
$9,314 USD by 164 backers on Nov 24, 2016
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Overview
There is an idea for a photobook. A book about people and nature. But don’t expect breath-taking landscapes and waterfalls in great numbers, as ‘Lost Territories: Fruit Garden’ is a record of oppression. Photographers from Sputnik Photos have visited the region of former Soviet Republics to witness the relics of oppression and transform their experience into a book. Now we are looking for funds to make the book real. Without your help we will not make it.

 

lta.sputnikphotos.com

 

We cannot wait for favors from Nature. To take them from it—that is our task.

Ivan Michurin

 

About the project

The book follows a long-term photographic project by Sputnik Photos entitled Lost Territories, which is dedicated to the former Soviet Union – territories of painful experience and unfinished transformations.  

Short user manual animation explaining how the Lost Territories project works:

 

 

For several years, the photographers have documented the life and space of all the 15 countries born after the collapse of the former Soviet empire, exploring such topics as: propaganda in Georgia, veterans of the Georgian-Russian war, environment contaminated with uranium and nuclear waste, women veterans of the Great Patriotic War, borders between states, metaphysics of the dreams of former USSR citizens, long-lasting consequences of natural disasters, decline of the shipbuilding industry on the Ukrainian coast of the Black Sea, and earthquake in Spitak (Armenia). Some of this photo journeys have been supported via Indie Gogo campaign so the collaborative spirit has been present in the project in many ways.

 

 

The resultant 'Lost Territories' archive, which consists of several thousand photographs, has become a starting point for exhibitions, books, and installations. Each of the narratives to emerge in the future will address a different aspect of the post-Soviet lands. So is ‘Fruit Garden’.

 

 

More about the book

The book‘Fruit Garden’ itself may be called a photographic field guide of sorts, albeit one that leads the viewer less to the bird than to the cage; less to the tree than to the coil of wire painfully binding its bark; less to an Arcadian landscape than to the post-Soviet landfill.

 

 

Tweezers in hand, the Fruit Garden’s archaeological dig evolves to become a meticulous survey of the doctrinal mindset underpinning Michurin’s axiom; and of the ways in which, during the reign of the Soviet Union, its repeated and obsessive society-wide implementation left, in the ideology’s wake, a razed expanse of human ecologies and psychologies, here represented by unseen tribes of damaged individuals, scarred for life by the regime’s dehumanizing regimen of invasive scientific experimentation,

 

 

The book has already been partially supported by Polish Ministry of Culture and National Heritage. To complete the process of pritning we kindly ask for your support.

 

 

Technical information

Fruit Garden

Size: 170x220mm

Pages: 180

Hard-cover

Bound in half blue paper over ivory linen

Partial oil varnish

No. of photos: 85

Edition: 500

Book design: Anna Nałęcka-Milach/ Tapir Book Design

Photos: Andrei Balco, Jan Brykczynski, Andrei Liankievich, Michal Luczak, Rafal Milach, Adam Panczuk, Agnieszka Rayss.

 

 

OTHER REWARDS

Lost Territories: Wordbook ( English and Polish version available)

 

Size: 110x220mm

21 writers

164 pages

20 images

Print run: 500 copies

 The Lost Territories Wordbook (LTA 1), for which Sputnik commissioned nearly one hundred short texts from twenty-one authors (essayists and journalists, novelists and poets, political scientists and historians, artists and curators—and sometimes the journalists are poets and vice versa) charged with the express mission of drafting, oddly enough, a Soviet and post-Soviet lexicon with missing words in order to compile a dictionary with missing definitions.
Although upon closer inspection, the Wordbook in fact reveals itself to be a dictionary of missing definitions, crazy-quilted together from the kinds of “truth told slant” illuminations you’re unlikely to find in a definitive reference book or citable treatise.

 

SET OF POSTCARDS!!!

Set of 3 postcards with photographs Sputnik Photos photographers had taken during their Lost Territories trips. Posctacrds signed by authors.

 

 

ORIGINAL POLAROIDS!!!!

Original instant prints taken by Sputnik Photographers (random choice), signed by authors.

 

IS (NOT) - RARE BOOK! 

Only 3 copies.

Photographers: Jan Brykczynski, Michal Luczak, Rafal Milach, Adam Panczuk, Agnieszka Rayss Text by: Sindri Freysson, Hermann Stefansson, Kristin Heida Kristinsdottir, Sigurbjorg Prastardottir, Huldar Breidfjord Editor / curator: Andrzej Kramarz Designer: Ania Nałęcka / Tapir Book Design Language of text: English / Icelandic ISBN: 978-83-927485-8-8 Publisher: Sputnik Photos Print run: 1000.

 OUT OF PRINT, these 3 copies are offered for the campaign by our brave photographers!

More about IS(NOT) project here.

 

Black Sea + print + box SOLD OUT!!!

book by Rafal Milach

BOOK INFO

76 pages,
27 pictures,
335×270 mm,
hard cover 
print size: 21×26.5 cm
printrun: 300 copies
ISBN: 978-8393336111
photos by Rafal Milach
texts by Rafal Milach
design by Ania Nalecka / TBD
publisher: self-published

NEW PERK!!!!

This Is Where the End of Cities Begins - special edition + print

by Agnieszka Rayss

 

This Is Where the End of Cities Begins / Tu się zaczyna koniec miast

soft cover 198 x 310 m

80 pages 34 pictures

print 198 x 310 mmphotos: Agnieszka Rayss

text: Filip Springer

design: Ania Nalecka / TBD

edition: 350 copies, including 25 special edition copies

publisher: Sputnik Photos

ISBN: 978-83-941826-1-8

NEW PERK!!!

Special edition of BOIKO book by Jan Brykczynski + print

 

more information here

NEW PERK!!!

Special edition of THE GARDENER book + 2 prints

more information here

SPUTNIK NOTEBOOK + POLAROID!!!  sold out!

 

Sputnik Photos (the publisher)

 

 

Sputnik Photos is an international collective founded in 2006 by documentary photographers from Central and Eastern Europe. Experiencing the transformation of their home region has become a pretext for commenting on the social, political, and cultural processes occurring in it. Using photography, film, and photographic books, the collective has been building a record of the transformations in the former Eastern bloc for more than a decade. The activities are supported by a team of curators, writers, graphic artists, and animators of culture. Using documentary photography as a starting point, Sputnik photographers explore its modern dimension and functions, as well as experiment with its form and content. The collective is also dedicated to diverse forms of visual education with a view to supporting and promoting young artists from the region.

 

Timeframe

·       October – November 2016 – Indiegogo Campaign

·       December 2016 – January 2017 – Production and quality check

·       February 2017 – Shipping

 

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Postcards

Currency Conversion $10 USD
€10 EUR
You will receive a set of 3 postcards with images from Lost Territories project. The postcards will be signed by authors. Your name will be features on the list of donors in the book.
Included Items
  • Postcards
Estimated Shipping
February 2017
5 claimed
Ships worldwide.

Wordbook

Currency Conversion $16 USD
€15 EUR
You will receive Lost Territories: Wordbook. Your name will be featured in the list of donors in the book.
Included Items
  • Wordbook
Estimated Shipping
December 2016
7 claimed
Ships worldwide.

Original polaroid

Currency Conversion $26 USD
€25 EUR
An original instant print taken by one of Sputnik photographers (random chocie) signed by the artist. Your name will be featured on the list of donors in the book.
Included Items
  • Instant print
Estimated Shipping
December 2016
9 out of 30 of claimed
Ships worldwide.

Fruit Garden - the book.

Currency Conversion $31 USD
€30 EUR
You will receive a standard edition of the book Fruit Garden signed by the authors. Your name will be featured in the list of donors in the book.
Included Items
  • Fruit Garden - the book.
Estimated Shipping
February 2017
72 claimed
Ships worldwide.

Portfolio review

Currency Conversion $42 USD
€40 EUR
Portfolio review with 2 Sputnik photographers (aorund 45 minutes each) of your choice, in person in Warsaw or on Skype.
Included Items
  • Portfolio review
Estimated Shipping
December 2016
1 out of 5 of claimed

Fruit garden + Wordbook

Currency Conversion $47 USD
€45 EUR
You will receive a standard edition of the book Fruit Garden signed by the authors and our Lost Territories: Wordbook. Your name will be featured in the list of donors in the book.
Included Items
  • Fruit Garden - the book.
  • Wordbook
Estimated Shipping
February 2017
Only 2 left
Ships worldwide.

Fruit Garden + print 15x21 cm

Currency Conversion $105 USD
€100 EUR
You will receive a standard edition of the book Fruit Garden signed by the authors plus one 15x21 cm/6x8.2 in photograph from Fruit Garden book by the artist of your choice (the photographs are printed on archival-quality paper and signed). Your name will be featured in the list of donors in the book.
Included Items
  • Fruit Garden - the book.
  • Print 18x24 cm (7x9.5 in.)
Estimated Shipping
February 2107
14 out of 25 of claimed
Ships worldwide.

End of Cities..special edition

Currency Conversion $105 USD
€100 EUR
You will receive special edition of the book by Agnieszka Rayss "This Is Where the End of Cities Begins", signed and numbered with print, in a box.
Included Items
  • End of Cities..special edition
Estimated Shipping
December 2016
0 out of 1 of claimed
Ships worldwide.

Boiko book - special edition

Currency Conversion $105 USD
€100 EUR
You will receive special edition of "Boiko" - book by Jan Brykczynski, with print. Your name will be featured on the donors' list in the "Fruit Garden" book.
Included Items
  • Boiko book + print
Estimated Shipping
December 2016
0 out of 1 of claimed
Ships worldwide.

The Gardener- special edition

Currency Conversion $105 USD
€100 EUR
You will receive special edition of "The Gardener" book by Jan Brykczynski, in a box, with 2 signed 18.5x15 cm prints. Your name will be featured on the list of donors in the "Fruit Garden" book.
Included Items
  • The Gardener + 2 prints
Estimated Shipping
December 2016
1 out of 2 of claimed
Ships worldwide.

Fruit Garden + Wordbook +print

Currency Conversion $115 USD
€110 EUR
Fruit Garden + Wordbook + print 15x21 cm You will receive the Fruit Garden book signed by the authors plus Wordook one 15x21 cm/6x8.2 in photograph from Fruit Garden book by the artist of your choice (the photographs are printed on archival-quality paper and signed). Your name will be featured in the list of donors in the book.
Included Items
  • Fruit Garden - the book.
  • Wordbook
  • Print 18x24 cm (7x9.5 in.)
Estimated Shipping
February 2017
2 out of 15 of claimed
Ships worldwide.

Portfolio+FruitGarden+Wordbook

Currency Conversion $995 USD
€950 EUR
You'll receive a unique portfolio of 7 photographs from Fruit Garden, one picture from each photographer participating in this book. The photographs, sized 24x30 cm/9.4x11.8 in, are printed on archival-quality paper and signed. You'll also recieve 2 books - "Fruit Garden" and "Wordbook". Your name will be featured in the list of donors in the book.
Included Items
  • Fruit Garden - the book.
  • Wordbook
  • Portfolio (7 prints 24x30cm)
Estimated Shipping
February 2017
1 out of 10 of claimed
sold out

Sputnik notebook + Polaroid

Currency Conversion $37 USD
€35 EUR
Estimated Shipping
December 2016
4 out of 4 of claimed
Ships worldwide.
sold out

IS(NOT) - RARE BOOK!

Currency Conversion $105 USD
€100 EUR
Estimated Shipping
December 2016
3 out of 3 of claimed
Ships worldwide.
sold out

Black Sea book + print

Currency Conversion $115 USD
€110 EUR
Estimated Shipping
December 2016
1 out of 1 of claimed
Ships worldwide.

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