Moscow, Russia
$200 - $400 / Day
My name is Konstantin Salomatin. I am a multimedia journalist based in Moscow, Russia. My passion is covering human interest stories and finding something extraordinary in everyday life. In 2017 I have expanded my professional interest to documentary filmmaking. Since then, I have been shooting documentaries and news video for various international media platforms including Radio Free Europe/Current time tv (Russia), Eurasianet, The Economist, Vox Pot (Czech Republic), Romb (Russia), infoNetwork (Germany). I started a career as a photojournalist in 2002 working for various local newspapers, and in 2009 started to work as a freelancer with Russian Reporter magazine. As a photographer, I have worked for many international media, such as NRC Handelsblad (The Netherlands), Le Monde (France), NPR (US), Expert magazine, Ogonyok magazine, Russian Reporter magazine, Chicago Tribune, Kommersant, Geo magazine Russia, Newsweek (Russia), China Daily, Sports Net Magazine (Canada), among others. Awards 2019 - Redkollegia award for the documentary “Shies under the siege”. 2019 - “Profession journalist”, Berlin, for the text reportage “Clockwork Mandarin” about Xinjiang repressions. 2012 - Leica Oscar Barnac top ten, for the photo project “The End” about the community of people who awaits the apocalypse.
International concern is growing about massive arrest and detention of Uyghurs and Kazakhs in the Chinese autonomous region of Xinjiang. The UN estimates that up to 1 mln citizens are detained without a trial in the camps. Via Kazakhstan the Orwellian reality of China's concentration camps is slowly revealed. The film based on interviews of first-handed witnesses and victims.
Moscow is faced with a growing waste problem. The only solution the government has come up with is to move the waste to other regions. Near Arkhangelsk, in the far north of Russia, this has sparked off a wave of protest. In the little railroad town of Shies, volunteers have camped for months at the building site to prevent construction work. They face guards and the police.
Anatoly Ganne spent half his life behind bars. Now he is 62, a free man and retired from the criminal life. The ex-convict married a young wife, fathered a baby boy and wants to start his life anew. The only problem is greedy Moscow developers, who want to tear down his wooden cottage.
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