Christopher Anderson, Silicon Forest. Magnum Photos 2007.

I’m not supposed to blog again until I’ve got something ready from my own view, too much time spent reading and clicking and reading and seeing in front of the screen. On Magnum In Motion I found this piece Silicon Forest by Christopher Anderson. Photographs of Akademgorodok, a town created during the Cold War deep within a Siberian forest, and which now services Western companies with computer support. Shortwave radio transmissions on the audio side gives it that vintage Eastern-bloc mood I can’t help but feel a certain sentimentality for … growing up in Northern Europe in the eighties n’ all. Those colours left an everlasting impression on a young child … (The photographs are from 2007)