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Photographer’s Powerful Images From the End of the Brutal Gulag System
The Gulags were a repressive system of forced labor camps in the Soviet Union that cost the lives of millions of people.
Photographer Barry Lewis arrived in Siberia in 1991 during the glasnost era when the USSR embraced a more open attitude.
Lewis was allowed a rare look at the Gulags in northwest Siberia and captured people who had been broken but ultimately had been lucky to survive. His haunting photos have been collated into a new book.
He captured structures built by the hands of the prisoners who were sometimes incarcerated over something petty like owning a book of forbidden poems.
A simple misdemeanor would result in receiving a life of hard labor which many did not survive.
Lewis was commissioned by Geo Magazine to visit the Gulags during the dying days of the Soviet era. The Gulag system was championed by Joseph Stalin who used it as an instrument of political repression — often sending people there without a trial.
An estimated 18 million people are reported to have been sent to a Gulag from 1930 to 1953 with some two million dying as a direct result of their detention.
After Stalin died in 1953, steps were taken to dismantle the Gulag system with a definitive ending in 1960.
“In 1991, traveling to a Siberian Gulag would have been impossible had it not been for the reforms in the mid-1980s of Mikhail Gorbachev, the last Leader of the Soviet Union, with his drive for political and economic restructuring (perestroika) and his call for a new era of transparency and openness (glasnost),” writes Lewis in his new book.
“These five years were full of a heady hope for a new future for the old empire, as the reforms revealed some of the horrors and inefficiencies of its Soviet past”
Lewis says he was lucky to benefit from the short period of openness before the Soviet Union completely collapsed and his new book was brought on by Putin’s invasion of Ukraine when he “felt compelled” to reexamine his old archive of photos from the 1991 Siberia trip.
“Since the invasion of Ukraine, Stalin has undergone a total rebrand by the Russian Government; this was closely linked to a rise in nationalism. Any dissenting voices are ruthlessly suppressed and the return to political imprisonment brings uncomfortable echoes of the old Gulag,” he says.
Gulag: A Journey into the Darkness of Stalin’s Siberian Prison Camps by Barry Lewis is available for pre-order now from Fistful of Books and will begin shipping in March.
Image credits: Photographs by Barry Lewis
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Columbia photographer was walking with Chiefs players during Wednesday’s parade
A professional photographer from Columbia was among those tagging along with Kansas City Chiefs players, coaches, and their families during the Super Bowl parade and rally.
Columbia photographer Scott Schaefer was up close and personal with Kansas City Chiefs players as they walked up and down the street during the Super Bowl parade.
Shaefer says he told his wife Shannon he was prepared for any trouble before he left Columbia for Kansas City.
“We were never in harm’s way, thankfully, where we were at,” said Schaefer. I was telling Shannon the night before, I did have a few of those thoughts just run through my mind, as when you are around any big crowd these days, unfortunately.”
“You always think about what you would do if I was in that situation. As a photojournalist, you ask yourself, do I keep photographing or do I get to safety?”
Schaefer says there was a time after the shooting when his wife was unsure of his safety.
“We were walking to the car and getting into the garage. For those five or 10 minutes, she was scared because she couldn’t get a response out of me to know that I was safe. It was the same thing for my buddy who was photographing with me.”
Schaefer says the faces of joy he captured with his camera soon turned to faces of fear after the gunshots.
“Everything that I captured during the day was joyous and happiness and celebration. We’ll keep those as good memories and keep praying for those that were hurt.”
Photographer captures joy and terror at Kansas City Chiefs’ Super Bowl parade
KANSAS CITY. Mo (KRCG) — A professional photographer was among those tagging along with Kansas City Chiefs players, coaches, and their families during the Super Bowl parade and rally before chaos broke out.
Photographer Scott Schaefer was up close and personal with the players as they walked up and down the street during the parade.
Shaefer told KRCG he told his wife Shannon he was prepared for any trouble before he left Columbia for Kansas City.
“We were never in harm’s way, thankfully, where we were at,” said Schaefer. I was telling Shannon the night before, I did have a few of those thoughts just run through my mind, as when you are around any big crowd these days, unfortunately.”
“You always think about what you would do if I was in that situation. As a photojournalist, you ask yourself, do I keep photographing or do I get to safety?”
Schaefer said there was a time after the shooting when his wife was unsure of his safety.
“We were walking to the car and getting into the garage. For those five or 10 minutes, she was scared because she couldn’t get a response out of me to know that I was safe. It was the same thing for my buddy who was photographing with me.”
Schaefer said the faces of joy he captured with his camera soon turned to faces of fear after the gunshots.
“Everything that I captured during the day was joyous and happiness and celebration. We’ll keep those as good memories and keep praying for those that were hurt.”
Kansas City police said they released one of the three individuals that are being detained in connection to the shooting. Two juveniles reman in custody.
Police Chief Stacey Graves said that 22 people injured Wednesday. A mother of two was killed.
Photographer captures joy and terror at Kansas City Chiefs’ Super Bowl parade
KANSAS CITY. Mo (KRCG) — A professional photographer was among those tagging along with Kansas City Chiefs players, coaches, and their families during the Super Bowl parade and rally before chaos broke out.
Photographer Scott Schaefer was up close and personal with the players as they walked up and down the street during the parade.
Shaefer told KRCG he told his wife Shannon he was prepared for any trouble before he left Columbia for Kansas City.
“We were never in harm’s way, thankfully, where we were at,” said Schaefer. I was telling Shannon the night before, I did have a few of those thoughts just run through my mind, as when you are around any big crowd these days, unfortunately.”
“You always think about what you would do if I was in that situation. As a photojournalist, you ask yourself, do I keep photographing or do I get to safety?”
Schaefer said there was a time after the shooting when his wife was unsure of his safety.
“We were walking to the car and getting into the garage. For those five or 10 minutes, she was scared because she couldn’t get a response out of me to know that I was safe. It was the same thing for my buddy who was photographing with me.”
Schaefer said the faces of joy he captured with his camera soon turned to faces of fear after the gunshots.
“Everything that I captured during the day was joyous and happiness and celebration. We’ll keep those as good memories and keep praying for those that were hurt.”
Kansas City police said they released one of the three individuals that are being detained in connection to the shooting. Two juveniles reman in custody.
Police Chief Stacey Graves said that 22 people injured Wednesday. A mother of two was killed.
Photographer captures joy and terror at Kansas City Chiefs’ Super Bowl parade
KANSAS CITY. Mo (KRCG) — A professional photographer was among those tagging along with Kansas City Chiefs players, coaches, and their families during the Super Bowl parade and rally before chaos broke out.
Photographer Scott Schaefer was up close and personal with the players as they walked up and down the street during the parade.
Shaefer told KRCG he told his wife Shannon he was prepared for any trouble before he left Columbia for Kansas City.
“We were never in harm’s way, thankfully, where we were at,” said Schaefer. I was telling Shannon the night before, I did have a few of those thoughts just run through my mind, as when you are around any big crowd these days, unfortunately.”
“You always think about what you would do if I was in that situation. As a photojournalist, you ask yourself, do I keep photographing or do I get to safety?”
Schaefer said there was a time after the shooting when his wife was unsure of his safety.
“We were walking to the car and getting into the garage. For those five or 10 minutes, she was scared because she couldn’t get a response out of me to know that I was safe. It was the same thing for my buddy who was photographing with me.”
Schaefer said the faces of joy he captured with his camera soon turned to faces of fear after the gunshots.
“Everything that I captured during the day was joyous and happiness and celebration. We’ll keep those as good memories and keep praying for those that were hurt.”
Kansas City police said they released one of the three individuals that are being detained in connection to the shooting. Two juveniles reman in custody.
Police Chief Stacey Graves said that 22 people injured Wednesday. A mother of two was killed.
