#127 CAMERA Book Review: Boogie - Moscow

A look through the latest book by photographer Moscow by Boogie.

Welcome to Boogie's Moscow. These are people sculpted by a brutal, concrete landscape, fighting to survive. This is a world of football hooligans, gang tattoos, boxing...Yet this is not misery porn: There is an inherent vitality in the violence - the enduring toughness - of these images. There is dynamism, there is esprit de corps, and there is strength.
'Raw' is a term that is perhaps overused, but Boogie's photos truly assault the senses. But the photographer's arresting gaze is directly returned by his subjects, and an undeniable rapport and intimacy is felt by the viewer. We are witnessing something, above all, crucially human.

"When I'm in a foreign city, I shoot like a madman. I walk and shoot 15 hours a day. Moscow is huge; it's very hard to cover photographically. It's hard to do it justice. I think, with this book, I only scratched the surface." --Boogie

Hardcover: 128 pages
Publisher: PowerHouse Books (January 8, 2019)
Language: English
Product Dimensions: 7.8 x 0.8 x 10.6 inches

Boogie was born and raised in Belgrade, Serbia and began photographing rebellion and unrest during the civil war that ravaged his country during the 1990s. Growing up in a war-torn country defined Boogie’s style and attraction to the darker side of human existence. He moved to New York in 1998, and turned his camera on the cities housing projects, unlocking the heart-stopping world of gangs and drugs in his seminal book IT’S ALL GOOD (powerHouse Books, 2006)

He’s gone on to publish eight more books focused on the hard side of cities all over the world and his recent solo exhibitions include Paris, New York, Tokyo, Milan, Istanbul and Los Angeles.

Clients include: Nike, Adidas, Puma, Apple, HBO, Lee, Tim Hortons and New Era to name a few.

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