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After the Wall Traces of the Soviet Empire
Title:After the Wall Traces of the Soviet Empire
Abandoned Soviet Military Housing.Mongolia, 2008 .The Soviet influence in Mongolia stretched back to the days of Tsarist Russia and developed in strength after the Revolution and was significant until the end of the Cold War. Between 1987 and 1992, however, the Soviets withdrew their troops as well as the technical and financial assistance that they had given to the country. 4x5" color negative film.


eric lusito
France



Biography: Eric Lusito is a French self taught photographer, born in 1976 in Aosta, Italy, lives in Chamonix Mont-Blanc. Result of six years of travel in the former Soviet bloc to seek out these military remains, relics of the ambition and power of the USSR, his first monograph "After the Wall Traces of the Soviet Empire" published by Dewi Lewis is a photographic record of the land and architecture — haunted by the symbols and history of a once powerful Empire.