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17/11/2010

Ville Lenkkeri

Photo Museum - FoMu, Antwerp

The Place of No Roads. The visual report the Finnish photographer made during his stay in the ghost town of Pyramiden. This abandoned Russian settlement, situated on the arctic Svalbard archipelago, was of seminal importance during the former Soviet regime because of its large coal mine. Miners and their families were sent to this remote, inhospitable site for a fixed period of two years. Pyramiden had an infrastructure like any other village, - schools, hospitals, libraries, museums, party halls - the only difference being that there were no roads that led to the settlement and that there was no money in circulation. Lenkkeri questions the objectivising possibilities of the photography medium: in how far does the photographer's ideal play a part in the description of a place which only still exists in the imagination?

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