Claudine Doury's celebrated series Artek takes us inside a once-prestigious Soviet youth camp, revealing the fleeting nature of adolescence. With a palette of soft, delicate tones, Doury’s lens captures both the discipline of collective life and the quiet moments of self-discovery within it..
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Doury’s work frequently revolves around themes of identity, transition and belonging. Artek encapsulates this in its portrayal of the passage from childhood to adulthood. The camp’s unique discipline, the clash between collective identity and personal memories, forms the core of the series. Rather than a romanticised nostalgia, what emerges is an authentic, evolving and, at times, conflicting sense of self. Her images provoke thought on how individuality is shaped within a collective identity or how it resists it.
PHOTOGRAPHY BY CLAUDINE DOURY TEXT BY IMA TRAUM
