Anna Marchenkova (b. 1990) is an artist mainly working with photography, based between Yekaterinburg and Moscow. With a background in ecological engineering and documentary photography, she is interested in researching the urban, ecological, and cultural landscape in the Anthropocene epoch. Marchenkova has participated in many personal and group shows, including the 4th and the 5th Ural Industrial Biennial.
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Monastery, 2017. The buddhist monastery in the Ural city of Kachkanar
Monastery, 2017. Several years ago, the monastery community faced a capitalist giant who wanted to tear down the temple to exploit the natural resources
Monastery, 2017. The monastery is built in the protected area, but the conflict affected the community greatly
Monastery, 2017. The founder of the monastery dreams of building a zeppelin and fly it, free from the politics and industry interests
Monastery, 2017
Social Housing. Youth Residential Complexes were residential projects created to solve the housing crisis in the late Soviet Union
These projects were built by the future residents and subsidised by big businesses, who provided materials
Care was a big part of this initiative: the residents took care of their quality of life and of their neighbours
Residents of these complexes developed a strong sense of place
odernism. Modernist architecture of Yekaterinburg still forms the city’s landscape
