100 meters is the current distance allowed to move away from your house in Moscow due to Covid-19. Photographer Vlada Krasilnikova and a Russian actress Alina Chernobrovkina accidentally met within 100 distance from their homes and decided to create a body of work to partly document and partly daydream about the new urban reality. Keeping their mandatory distance, together they created images of a new citizen, neighbour, and street style inspired by the disturbing atmosphere of an empty city and new routines.

Vlada Krasilnikova and Lena Kholkina are Moscow-based photographers working as a team on a long-term project “Spondance”- an urban body research in collaboration with Russian actors. Shoot preparations and ideas were exchanged via phone and zoom, as the team was stuck different places because of the pandemic. The model pictured, Alina Chernobrovkina is an actress with the Theatre School of Dramatic Art and a performer. Alina shares, “it is now an unnerving situation to just walk out of your home, and despite taking all the precautions, you still feel exposed– to the virus, to the police whose guidelines change any minute, or to the people who don’t believe in the virus and openly behave like it’s not there.

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