#anjamaraisphotography

[anjamarais]

'The illusion which exalts us is dearer to us than ten thousand truths'. Alexander Pushkin. ⸭◈⸭ Photograph taken at the Pushkin Apartment Museum in St. Petersburg, Russia. ⸭◈⸭ ⸭◈⸭ #alexanderpushkin #pushkinquotes #Pushkinmuseum #anjamarais #anjamaraisphotography #blackandwhitephotography #bnw #noiretblanc #photography (at Pushkin House) https://www.instagram.com/p/CB5tHgEFtqT/?igshid=z1nddxupumgq

[anjamarais]

❝ I search instead for the others, the ones left over, the ones who have escaped from these mythologies with barely their lives; they have real faces and hands, they think of themselves as wrong somehow, they would rather be trees. ❞ Margaret Atwood . . . #margaretatwood #tree #peterhofpalace #anjamaraisphotography #blackandwhite #bnw #noiretblanc #blackandwhitephotography #saintpetersburg https://www.instagram.com/p/CBTHT0bFfBv/?igshid=1pkzr1w4kvxty

[anjamarais]

I attended an anti-Putin demonstration several years ago in Russia. This sign at a glance appears funny but the meaning of it is multi-faceted. In how our reality has become distorted and controlled by corrupt power structures. This protester commented specifically on Kafka's work "The Trail". "When Josef K. says in the first part of "The Trial" that he must have been wrongfully accused as he “was arrested without having done anything wrong” the doomed protagonist – just like the many innocent black civilians indiscriminately slain by the police and millions of U.S.-based foreign workers on the brink of deportation – had come face-to-face with an excessive ordeal. Indeed, with perhaps no-one in a more Kafkaesque situation than an undocumented worker in the U.S. fearing for their very existence under a Trump presidency, the uniquely bewildering – and deeply isolating – case of Josef K. serves to represent the case of every émigré ...." Brian Coney for The Quietus #franzkafkaforpresident #kafkaesque #anjamaraisphotography #blackandwhite #bnw #franzkafka #thequietus #writerbrianconey #blackandwhitephotography #blacklivesmatter #thetrial https://www.instagram.com/p/CBMDmMgFFy_/?igshid=xmhzih1copa