Elissa Bogos, Photographer and Journalist

Russia: Sakhalin and Moscow

Boys play on storage units and waste disposal sheds near apartment buildings. Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, 2009.
   
Peter Van der Wolf, born in the Netherlands, came to Sakhalin to work as an environmental specialist in the oil and gas industry. He says he fell in love with horses after he came to the island, and now co-owns and operates a horse farm.
  
Moscow, August, 2009.
     
  
Moscow, August, 2009
   
Communists in Moscow. August, 2009.
   
Alexander Medvedev sits in the living room of his home in Okhotsk. Medvedev, 63, is a former sailor and has gained local fame as an artist. Sakhalin, 2009.
     
  
Sakhalin Museum of Natural History. Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, 2009.
   
World War II veterans place carnations at the Monument of the Eternal Flame in Sakhalin's Slava Square. Sakhalin, Russia, 2009.
   
The Sakhalin-2 Liquid Natural Gas (LNG) plant in Prigorodnoe. Sakhalin, Russia, 2009.