boris mikhailov and the blue hour

Yes, I am at it again with the blue photography, but these are not cyanotypes; they are tinted photographs. In the series, At Dusk, Ukranian photographer Boris Mikhailov recorded his homeland at the time of the collapse of the Soviet Union. To use a word that has been irrevocably altered by one teen fiction series, it is twilight photography - both literally and metaphorically, for Mikhailov is shooting a sociey in transition in what is effectively at the sundown of an entire political era.

image 1 from the Guardian, images 2-8 via the Victoria and Albert museum