Beyond Freedom: Photos Inside Russia’s Prison System
As of October 1, 2018, there were 575,686 people in the institutions of Russia’s penitentiary system. For each of these people, the reality of being in one of the penitentiary institutions is simultaneously a problem, a conflict, and a compromise. But probably to the greatest extent, it’s a compromise.
About the author: Denis Davydenko was born in 1978 in Krasnoyarsk, Eastern Siberia, Russia. The opinions expressed in this article are solely those of the author. He has been taking pictures since nine years old. He has publications in the Russian regional press as well as in the Western editions. Denis Davydenko works in the genre of street, documentary and reportage photography. His favorite photographers he considers his guides to the world of visual art are Henri Cartier-Bresson, Josef Koudelka, Herbert List, Steve McCurry, Alexander Rodchenko, Gueorgui Pinkhassov, Sergey Maksimishin, and Alexander Slyusarev. You can find more of Denis Davydenko’s work on 500px.
