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This image is part of Nadav Kander's series Dust, which documents abandoned Soviet-era secret military sites in Kazakhstan, including Priozersk, a closed town on Lake Balkhash that served as a testing ground for Soviet missile defense systems during the Cold War. Kander photographed the crumbling monuments, statues, and infrastructure left behind after the sites were decommissioned; the parenthetical title, referencing a statue that "once held an oar," points to how these figures have been stripped of their original attributes by decay or removal. The work sits in a lineage with Kander's better-known Yangtze, The Long River project, large-format, elegiac images of landscapes marked by state power and its aftermath.
This image is part of Nadav Kander's series Dust, which documents abandoned Soviet-era secret military sites in Kazakhstan, including Priozersk, a closed town on Lake Balkhash that served as a testing ground for Soviet missile defense systems during the Cold War. Kander photographed the crumbling monuments, statues, and infrastructure left behind after the sites were decommissioned; the parenthetical title, referencing a statue that "once held an oar," points to how these figures have been stripped of their original attributes by decay or removal. The work sits in a lineage with Kander's better-known Yangtze, The Long River project, large-format, elegiac images of landscapes marked by state power and its aftermath.
