
Another Family
- Publisher
- Treemedia
- Year
- 2014
- ISBN
- 978-5-903788-24-8
- Specifications
- hardcover
232 x 175 mm
200 pages
edition of 500
Irina Popova's photobook began as the story of Lilya and Pasha, a young couple struggling with addiction, and their small daughter; after an exhibition and online publication the project set off a scandal, a storm of outraged comments and a complaint to the police. This book tells what happened to the family afterwards. Alongside the photographs it brings together scans of personal diaries, letters and screenshots of the online discussions the work provoked, staging the voices of many participants as if in a play, with the photographer herself only one voice among them; Popova shares her own feelings without insisting on a single position. The book is, in the end, an attempt to weigh the public response a photographer's work can provoke against their personal responsibility toward the people who become its subjects.