Komrads Russian Street Photography by John D Williams
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Thank you for investing in the “Komrads” street photographer’s book. Within this book you will envisage the best street candid pictures of people of Russia.
As one of the most audacious street photographers John D Williams offers to you unique and compelling images of city people in the urban environment, as well as the rural folk of modern Russia in the 21st century. Committed to creating original visions of documentary photography his work inspires total connectivity between people, existence, and art.
With all things possible his photography captures people in everyday situations, facing the nuances of life and daily events that empower people as they move through the terrific journey of existence. Using powerful and compelling candid black and white photos his street images encapsulate the beauty and enigma of the human existence, the tranquility and benevolence seem to jump out towards us as we peer into the world of Russia, as we walk amongst the streets of the old soviet legacy, and finally towards the bright dynamic future of the lives of modern Russians.
John D Williams offers a potent vision of how urban photographers weave the city and streets to capture the famous people within these energetic locales. I hope you enjoy viewing and reading “Komrads” as much as the photographer enjoyed and was pleased by capturing and presenting the photographs.
John Williams
John Williams was born in Cardiff in 1961.He wrote a punk fanzine and played in bands before moving to London and becoming a journalist , writing for everyone for The Face to the Financial Times. He wrote his first book, an American crime fiction travelogue called Into The Badlands (Paladin) in 1991. His next book, Bloody Valentine (HarperCollins), written around the Lynette White murder case in the Cardiff docks, came out in 1994. Following a subsequent libel action from the police, he turned to fiction. His first novel the London-set Faithless (Serpent's Tail) came out in 1997. Shortly afterward he moved back to Cardiff, with his family, and has now written four novels set in his hometown - Five Pubs, Two Bars And A Nightclub (Bloomsbury 1999); Cardiff Dead (Bloomsbury 2000); The Prince Of Wales (Bloomsbury 2003) and Temperance Town (Bloomsbury 2004). He has edited an anthology of new Welsh fiction, Wales Half Welsh (Bloomsbury 2004). He also writes screenplays (his ninety-minute drama, A Light In The City, was shown by BBC Wales in 2001). An omnibus edition of his Cardiff novels, The Cardiff Trilogy, is to be published by Bloomsbury in summer 2006.
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Komrads Russian Street Photography by John D Williams - John Williams
Komrads
Russian Street Photography by John D Williams
The Ideas behind the Photography Book Komrads
The Beginning of Komrads
The initial idea behind this street photography photo book titled Komrads
was to allow people from all over the world to see Russian people in different environments, both summer and winter, the young and old, intimate moments and the novelties that grace the vast world of the Russian Federation. The main works are captured in the Republic of Bashkortostan
home to the main ethnic groups of Russians, Bashkirs, and Tartars.
In essence the concept was to present the reality of Russian people to those who may have only seen or witnessed traditional stereotypes in mainstream media.
Moving around main cities like Ufa
, Yekaterinburg
, and Sterlitamak
, as well as village towns like Raevka
the purpose was to capture urban and rural people within a natural environment. Shooting mostly unobserved, capturing the genuine faces of the people in the images helped to give the powerful photographs a sense of