First edition of Retrograd + Forstate boxed set by Stig Stasig. First impression. Medium format hardbacks, in card slipcase, in fine condition. A small crease to the top edge of the slipcase only. About From the Baltic countries and Ukraine in the west, to Siberia far to the east, Georgia, Armenia and the Caucasus in the south. In the years from 1988 to 1993, photographer Stig Stasig traveled around the Soviet Union and photographed life on streets. Retrograd contains text by Sergej Lebedev, one of the young promising Russian writers in exile, who in his stories about the present draws threads to the past. In 1992, danish photographer Stig Stasig went to Riga. Here he photographed in the ruins of the Soviet Union. In 2015, he returned to Riga. The questions had begun to emerge: what if he got names and the stories for the pictures he took in 1992? Forštate is a photographic story about the Maskavas Forštate in 1992 with accompanying text by Birna Kleivan in conversation with Stig Stasig.
