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Rafal Milach Uses Visual Metaphors to Deconstruct the System

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Rafal Milach Tanks at the outskirt housing block district where Gala used to live. Yekaterinburg, Russia. 2006. © Rafal Milach | Magnum Photos
Rafal Milach Kristjan, 14, posing for portrait in Viking gym. He's new to wightlifting. Before he used to play football but decided to quit because of being overweight. "Now I'm training for an International we (...)
Rafal Milach Country ball. Once a year horse breaders gather to celebrate the end of the grazing season. Saudakrokur, Iceland. September 26, 2010. © Rafal Milach | Magnum Photos
Rafal Milach Stas' wife Lera. "What I like most about Russia is myself," says Stas. They were born in USSR and grew up in the transition time of Perestroika and started their adult life in Putin's Russia. Krasn (...)
Rafal Milach Inside the Quba Heydar Aliyev Centre. In 2013, to mark the tenth anniversary of Heydar Aliyev’s death, his son and successor as president, Ilham Aliyev, issued an order that the country’s seventy d (...)
Rafal Milach After the Russo-Georgian War of 2008, one hundred and twenty-eight thousand Georgians were forced to leave South Ossetia, which had become a puppet state dependent on Russia. Some of them found she (...)
Rafal Milach Arri, the multi-champion in dog beauty contests. Belarus, officially the Republic of Belarus, has been called the last remaining dictatorship of Europe. The more unstable Aleksandr Lukashenko’s r (...)
Rafal Milach Marina, Miss Belarusian Railway in Brest region. Minsk, Belarus. March 22, 2013. © Rafal Milach | Magnum Photos
Rafal Milach Xenia Degelko, the president of BRSM pioneer association in Aktyabrsky willage. She is the winner of the “Leader of the year” contest in the Mogilevsky region. She received a pen engraved with her (...)
Rafal Milach Yuri, the best hunter of the Ivacevichi region.

Ivacevichi, Belarus. March 26, 2013. © Rafal Milach | Magnum Photos
Rafal Milach BELARUS. Minsk. May 28, 2013. Elena, the best National Library worker. The new National Library building was finished in 2005 under a special supervision of the President of Belarus, Aleksandr Luk (...)
Rafal Milach From the series, “The First March of Gentlemen”. Wrzesnia, Poland. 2017. © Rafal Milach | Magnum Photos
Rafal Milach From the series, “The First March of Gentlemen”. Wrzesnia, Poland. 2017. © Rafal Milach | Magnum Photos
Rafal Milach “The First March of Gentlemen” is a fictitious narration composed of authentic stories. Historical events related to the town of Wrzesnia came to be the starting point for reflection on the protest (...)
Rafal Milach “The First March of Gentlemen” is a fictitious narration composed from authentic stories. Historical events relating to the town of Wrzesnia were the starting point for reflection on the protest a (...)
Rafal Milach From the series, “The First March of Gentlemen”. Wrzesnia, Poland. 2017. © Rafal Milach | Magnum Photos
Rafal Milach RUSSIA. Moscow. 2007. - My current occupation is doing nothing - says Denis (29). He is Lena's flatmate and friend from Kazakhstan. They were born in USSR, grew up in the transition time of Peres (...)
Rafal Milach 'What I like most in Russia is myself', says Stas. He is a historian and works as a witer, journalist and PR manager. He was born in the USSR, grew up in the transition time of Perestroika and star (...)
Rafal Milach Vasya at the backstage of the nghtclub - I remember the day when Yeltzin attacked the white house. I was 13 and sewed the shirts for assignment - says Vasya. His life is deivided between family and (...)
Rafal Milach Kitchen in a community center. Blonduos, Iceland. May 25, 2010. © Rafal Milach | Magnum Photos
Rafal Milach 'In the Orthodox religion there’s only heaven and hell. There’s nothing in between. It’s the same way in Russia', says Mira. She was born in the USSR and grew up in the transition time of Perestroi (...)
Rafal Milach Vasya at the backstage of night club. - I remember the day when Yeltzin attacked the white house. I was 13 and sewed the shirts for assignment - says Vasya. His life is deivided between family and (...)
Rafal Milach Vaya performing. - I remember the day when Yeltzin attacked the white house. I was 13 and sewed the shirts for assignment - says Vasya. His life is deivided between family and work. He is father of (...)
Rafal Milach Sasha and Nastya in Obsk Sea. - The only way to die is together- say Sasha and Nastya. The are both freelanc internet administrators. They were born in USSR, grew up in the transition time of Peres (...)
Rafal Milach In 2013, president Mikheil Saakashvili was ousted and all his personal projects of accelerated change in Georgia were put on hold. Facade-like modernization covered the greatest number of political (...)
Rafal Milach Community center where Odinn works. He got his first job as a film projector operator at the age of 15. Than he worked few years in the sea. For the past 4 years He's been running local community c (...)
Rafal Milach For three months Maria B. has been living in retirement house. She took the most important things with her from hostel. A 100 year old lamp, paintings and a stone table. - When it's broken I will d (...)
Rafal Milach Country ball. Once a year horse breaders gather to celebrate the end of the grazing season. Saudakrokur, Iceland. September 26, 2010. © Rafal Milach | Magnum Photos
Rafal Milach ICELAND. 2010.

A notebook from the ring road. © Rafal Milach | Magnum Photos
Rafal Milach Snaerbjorn the horse breeder. Ulfiosvatn, Iceland. October 1, 2010. © Rafal Milach | Magnum Photos
Rafal Milach Geometric figures and models triggering optical illusions, partly created by pupils of the chess school located in the Khyrdalan Heydar Aliyev Centre. The structure and observation of these objects (...)
Rafal Milach Ceremony hall designed by Tamara, the best Vital Records and Statistics Registry worker of the Republic of Belarus. Volozhin, Belarus. September 20, 2011. © Rafal Milach | Magnum Photos
Rafal Milach This is the story of seven people I photographed over the course of six years. They come from Moscow, Yekaterinburg and Krasnoyarsk. They are the Soviet-born generation that spent their entire adu (...)