Uma viagem até à escuridão dos gulags de Estaline

Em 1991, Barry Lewis visitou a Sibéria e fotografou “a escuridão dos campos prisionais de Estaline”. Em 2022, mergulhou no vasto arquivo para dar corpo ao fotolivro Gulag, editado agora.

Bread and soup for the prison lunch. By bribing the KGB we stayed at Camp AW261/4, Uptar, one of Russia’s 1000 prison camps (since 1960 all the “politicals” had been replaced by criminals). The hard labour was brutal, working outside pouring concrete at temperatures of -30° C, and escape impossible.