Letters to Myself
Longing for inner peace Oleg Klimov returns to some of the areas where he has photographed during wartime...
“Oleg Klimov: Letters to Myself”
For twelve years, war photographer Oleg Klimov documented the disintegration of the Soviet Union. He was present at almost all conflicts and ethnic tensions in the 90s. His photographs appeared on the front pages of many Western newspapers as silent witnesses of the war in the former Soviet Union. Oleg’s career as a photographer has also had a personal effect on him. After all those years, he unexpectedly faces a war trauma. Longing for inner peace Oleg returns to some of the areas where he has photographed during wartime: Nagorno-Karabakh, Abkhazia and Chechnya. In addition to Oleg’s memories other realities arise: those of the people he then photographed.
Credits:
Written & directed by: Masha Novikova
Camera: Pavel Filippov, Masha Novikova
Sound: Anatoly Turikov, Varvara Belous
Editor: Michiel Hazebroek
Music & soundmix: Jeroen Goeijers
Executive producer: Judith Vreriks
Commissioning editor: Margje de Koning, IKON
Produced by: Frank van den Engel
A co-production with IKON TV
This production was supported by the Dutch Cultural Mediafund