The long-term project titled “Wandering Times” (2005-2011) has started as a sort of photographic diary during the years I first came to live in Italy after my emigration from the homeland Russia.

Without any narrative intention I try to reveal through my images the thoughts and feelings I experienced during the period that was caracterized by happy events (my son’s birth) as well as by long-lasting states of sadness, loneliness and nostalgia.

“Wandering Times” describes this particular state of mind of a person who feels forced to “wander” through life without beeing able to find his/her own place.. The project communicates the sense of alienation, frustration, the futile and hopeless pursuit of an unobtainable goal, but at the same time conveys intimacy and affection. “Wandering Times” is a story dealing with personal search for a “Home” in the world that obliges one to feel a stanger.

My approach involves no documentary intention, apart from showing my way of living in the world, made up of feelings of tenderness and love, but also underscored by doubts, fears, isolation and anxiety.