Konstantin Salomatin is a documentary photographer and filmmaker based in Yekaterinburg. With an academic background in biology, Salomatin turned to photography in 2002 and worked for various Russian and international publications from Russian Reporter to NPR and Le Monde. Since 2013, he has worked as a videographer for, amongst others, The Economist and CAPA Entreprises.
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The Soviet-Era Factory, 2011. This factory in a small Urals settlement called Arti has been making scythes and sewing needles and using the same techniques since the Soviet times
The Soviet-Era Factory, 2011. The factory is haunted by the ghosts of the communist times: the walls are covered in banners with images of Lenin and slogans about highly-efficient work and 5-year-plan
My Big Fat Tajik Wedding, 2015. Many of the Tajiks who come to Russia for work and face material hardships and racism are saving money for an expensive wedding ceremony that traditionally lasts for at least 3 days
My Big Fat Tajik Wedding, 2015. In the country where 47.2% live below the poverty threshold, the amount of money spent on weddings per year equals the country’s yearly spending of $2 billion
My Big Fat Tajik Wedding, 2015. A lot of marriages are still arranged, and after the ceremony and birth of children, husbands will leave to work abroad again—sometimes, choosing not to return
The End, 2011. This series documents the life around Diveevo Monastery, a sacred place where people await the Apocalypse and seek protection of Virgin Mary
The End, 2011. Ironically, Diveevo is located near a closed city of Sarov ( ex-Arzamas 16), the place where the Soviet nuclear bomb was born
