Fall/Winter 2012/2013 - Steidl
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Ivan Sigal<br />
White Road<br />
From 1998 to 2005, photographer Ivan Sigal worked, lived and travelled in Central Asia, traversing Russia, Kazakhstan,<br />
Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan and Afghanistan. He roamed with a dual identity: on the one hand designing media<br />
projects with local communities; on the other, an itinerant documentarian. The images from his multi-year odyssey reveal<br />
the unsettled lives of Eurasians in provincial towns and cities. Alongside the photos, an episodic narrative unfolds:<br />
vignettes chronicling Sigal’s encounters while tracing his restless passage through the landscape. Through image and<br />
text, White Road addresses what was left behind when the Soviet Union’s ideological superstructure was stripped<br />
away, eliminating the grand narrative that imposed meaning on people’s lives. The cumulative effect is that of a search<br />
without a centre or an apparent goal. We sense that circumstances of history and power propel us – subject, traveller,<br />
and reader – from encounter to encounter, and from place to place. The term “white road” means “safe journey” in<br />
Kazakh, Kyrgyz and Uzbek. These words are printed on road signs at the edges of Central Asian towns, wishing travellers<br />
well as they enter the emptiness of the steppe.<br />
Ivan Sigal is a documentary photographer who works on long-term storytelling projects. Born in 1969 in Pennsylvania,<br />
he has lived for extensive periods in the former Soviet Union and in Asia. Sigal’s Eurasia work has been exhibited in cities<br />
across the former Soviet Union and in the United States. He also designs and creates international media projects,<br />
with a focus on networked communities.<br />
Exhibition: Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., November <strong>2012</strong> to February <strong>2013</strong><br />
Ivan Sigal WHITE ROAD<br />
Ivan Sigal<br />
White Road<br />
Edited by Ivan Sigal and Paul Roth<br />
Texts by Ivan Sigal and Paul Roth<br />
Book design by Ivan Sigal and Paul Roth<br />
340 pages<br />
9.5 x 8 in. / 24.1 x 20.3 cm<br />
225 photographs<br />
Tritone<br />
Clothbound hardcover<br />
€ 65.00 / £ 50.00 / US$ 88.00<br />
ISBN 978-3-86930-538-7<br />
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