Yelena Zhavoronkova

Friend of First Exposures

Picnic, 2012

14” x 10” Gelatin Silver Print, Signed: Verso

Dead End

Some places are hard to visit or even drive by. For different reasons. Over the years I collected quite a number of these spots in the city of San Francisco, where I live for 32 years now.

To break the pattern, to remove the spell which is giving me a heartache every time I am passing by one of those areas, I started to visit them with my camera, reliving the moments from my past.

The name of the project, "Dead End", is coming from one of the images, and it very accurately describes the situation my life put me into a few years ago. In Russian, the end of the road, "tu-PIK", doesn't sound as literate as it sounds in English though could also be used to express sadness and hopelessness.

Here is the beginning of my long journey, which is still ahead of me, but with great hope for the best.”

Value: $800