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A sublime and intelligent way of storytelling, we recently discovered the work of Dutch photographer Rob Hornstra. The images below are from his most recent work 101 Billionaires. Be sure to also check out his other work such as Roots of the Rúntur and Communism & Cowgirls.



"Under Vladimir Putin’s rule, Russia has reclaimed its position among the superpowers of the world in the past eight years, the economic recession and the tumultuous nineties seemingly all but forgotten. Thanks to the country’s huge abundance of raw materials such as oil and natural gas, the Russian economy is flourishing as never before. After a mere 18 years of capitalism, the January 2008 issue of Finans Magazine reported that there are currently 101 billionaires in Russia. It is difficult to detect much prosperity in the book “101 Billionaires”, which portrays an entirely different segment of the Russian population. Far away from the glitter and glamour of Moscow, the world’s most expensive city, we find the impoverished Russians, victims of the ‘tough-as-nails’ capitalism with which Russia made its name immediately after the fall of Communism."






all images © Rob Hornstra

“I feel involved with the world around me, and I’m fascinated by human behavior,...Why are older people afraid of younger people? My work is often based on questions like that."

Thanks Pete for pointing his work out to us!