{"id":11291,"date":"2017-03-14T22:04:31","date_gmt":"2017-03-14T22:04:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/ellisoncenter\/?p=11291"},"modified":"2017-03-15T21:25:38","modified_gmt":"2017-03-15T21:25:38","slug":"graphic-journalist-victoria-lomasko-sheds-light-on-invisible-parts-of-russian-society","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/ellisoncenter\/news\/graphic-journalist-victoria-lomasko-sheds-light-on-invisible-parts-of-russian-society\/","title":{"rendered":"Graphic Journalist Victoria Lomasko Sheds Light on &#8216;Invisible&#8217; Parts of Russian Society"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">It is no secret that journalists and artists are under increasing pressure to steer clear of touchy subjects and unflattering portrayals of the Kremlin in today\u2019s Russia. <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wordswithoutborders.org\/contributor\/victoria-lomasko\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Victoria Lomasko<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, whose work stands at an intersection of art and journalism, understands that\u00a0better than most.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">From the lives of sex workers to juvenile prisons, her graphic reportage casts light on sections of Russian society that she says are largely invisible both at home and to the outside world.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Lomasko\u2019s work presents the stories of her subjects through drawings and direct quotes. With an eye on marginalized members of society, she has reported on opposition protests, trucker strikes, and Russia\u2019s LGBT communities.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_11334\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"width: 400px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11334 \" src=\"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/ellisoncenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2017\/03\/lomasko1-375x250.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"266\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/ellisoncenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2017\/03\/lomasko1-375x250.jpg 375w, https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/ellisoncenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2017\/03\/lomasko1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/ellisoncenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2017\/03\/lomasko1-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/ellisoncenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2017\/03\/lomasko1-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/ellisoncenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2017\/03\/lomasko1-530x353.jpg 530w, https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/ellisoncenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2017\/03\/lomasko1-800x534.jpg 800w, https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/ellisoncenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2017\/03\/lomasko1-750x500.jpg 750w, https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/ellisoncenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2017\/03\/lomasko1-1140x760.jpg 1140w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Victoria Lomasko presented her work at the University of Washington ahead of the opening of her exhibition in Seattle&#8217;s Georgetown. (Chris Collison)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Her most recent\u00a0book, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><a href=\"https:\/\/shop.nplusonemag.com\/products\/other-russias-by-victoria-lomasko\">Other Russias<\/a>,<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> gathers her graphic reportage from 2008 to 2016, presenting vignettes of a Russia in transition. Among the events chronicled in her book are the <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-europe-19297373\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">trial of Pussy Riot<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, the <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-europe-18405306\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">anti-Putin protests<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> of 2012, and a <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/parallels\/2015\/12\/23\/460703160\/in-a-rare-protest-russian-truckers-rally-against-putins-highway-tax\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">strike by long-haul truckers<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> against a new highway tax. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Ellison Center caught up with Lomasko\u00a0ahead of the opening of her exhibit at <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/fantagraphics.com\/flog\/events\/seattle-russians-exhibition-opening\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Fantagraphics Bookstore and Gallery in Georgetown<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> to talk about her work and about how Russian politics are affecting cultural exchange in the region.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Lomasko\u2019s work will be on display at <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/fantagraphics.com\/flog\/events\/seattle-russians-exhibition-opening\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Fantagraphics Bookstore<\/span><\/a><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><em> through April 5.<\/em> <\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Your work is unique in that it pulls from both journalism and visual art. What led you to this style of media?<\/b><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_11296\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"width: 368px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11296\" src=\"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/ellisoncenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2017\/03\/09_big_miting_2-300x212.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"368\" height=\"260\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/ellisoncenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2017\/03\/09_big_miting_2-300x212.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/ellisoncenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2017\/03\/09_big_miting_2.jpeg 500w, https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/ellisoncenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2017\/03\/09_big_miting_2-375x266.jpeg 375w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 368px) 100vw, 368px\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8220;All of Moscow is here&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I liked to draw and write during my childhood. My father was the one who wanted me to be an artist. Writing was something that I did in response to my own needs and desires. It wasn\u2019t until I was 30 that I began incorporating text into my work. At first these were things that I overheard when eavesdropping while I was drawing. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I didn\u2019t have a sense of what I was doing or what genre I belonged to, but I didn\u2019t want to only draw people. I wanted to write down what they were saying.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">With every single story, my approach moved closer to\u00a0journalism. I would develop relationships with other\u00a0people who wrote and I began incorporating different methods and approaches that journalists use in their work. I\u2019m interested to see how much information I can convey through an image and what information is left over that I need to describe through text. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I\u2019m not as interested in separate images as I am in the narrative\u2014the rhythm and how the story develops. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">My education is as a book illustrator. It was profession taught during Soviet times. Recently, the way I work is that I immediately imagine the story laid out as a book. I see where I would place an image and where text would go. That is how I figure out the work and make it fit as a whole.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I\u2019m also interested in sociology. I have friends who are sociologists, and I try to include their methods in my approach. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Here in the US, and I think this is increasingly true in Eastern Europe, people want instant information. With social media and smartphones, we are used to getting news and images right away while events are unfolding. Your work is more thoughtful. It takes more time to produce and to consume. What kind of audience are you trying to reach with this approach?<\/b><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_11328\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"width: 251px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-11328\" src=\"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/ellisoncenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2017\/03\/lomaskopriot-212x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"251\" height=\"355\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/ellisoncenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2017\/03\/lomaskopriot-212x300.jpg 212w, https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/ellisoncenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2017\/03\/lomaskopriot-375x530.jpg 375w, https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/ellisoncenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2017\/03\/lomaskopriot.jpg 690w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 251px) 100vw, 251px\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8220;A woman&#8217;s work is revolution, not borscht.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">My stories have been published in different ways and different forms. If something is going on and it\u2019s breaking news, it might just be an image that is published with some small text. But then I can work on the subject longer. It could be a month, and then the story will be published in a different way. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>After the Pussy Right trial in 2012, you said you saw the church becoming more involved in\u00a0policing art and media in Russia. How is the situation now?<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I would say that the state controls the church and that the Orthodox Church we have today was created as a means to control contemporary Russian culture. In my view, most priests are just bureaucrats wearing different clothing. I think a lot of people see them that way. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">It seems like we are being forced to submit to a new ideology, but it\u2019s the same ideology that existed in Russia before the revolution\u2014Russian Orthodoxy, sovereignty, and nationality. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>You tend to cover topics that not viewed very favorably by the Russian authorities,\u00a0especially events that openly oppose the government. Do you think things like protests and opposition rallies are still effective tools in Russia?<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">If they had been effective in 2012, we would be living in a completely different society now. I think the most effective methods are probably strikes. They are what the government is most afraid of now. <\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_11294\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"width: 357px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11294\" src=\"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/ellisoncenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2017\/03\/DSCF4797-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"357\" height=\"238\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/ellisoncenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2017\/03\/DSCF4797-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/ellisoncenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2017\/03\/DSCF4797-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/ellisoncenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2017\/03\/DSCF4797-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/ellisoncenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2017\/03\/DSCF4797-530x353.jpg 530w, https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/ellisoncenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2017\/03\/DSCF4797-800x534.jpg 800w, https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/ellisoncenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2017\/03\/DSCF4797-375x250.jpg 375w, https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/ellisoncenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2017\/03\/DSCF4797-750x500.jpg 750w, https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/ellisoncenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2017\/03\/DSCF4797-1140x760.jpg 1140w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 357px) 100vw, 357px\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Victoria Lomasko signs a copy of her book at UW.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The government did a lot to get in the way of unions. Many union leaders were beaten or killed. My new book ends with a story about long-distance truckers who carry out large-scale strikes. The government was very afraid of them and shut them down. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>How has the arts culture in Russia changed since Putin returned to the presidency\u00a0in 2012? Is it becoming more tight-knit?<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">No, it\u2019s not really getting more tight-knit. A lot of people have emigrated. A lot are living between countries. Those who have stayed in Russia are not doing well because of the economic decline. The situation for them is very bad. There is a lot of competition between them. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I think that it is becoming a time of individualism. The political processes that have been going on for the past couple of years prove that. People have to work alone and risk their own lives and well-being. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>When you work with other journalists, what is the prevailing attitude about covering opposition-led events? <\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Journalists are often attacked. I can count on my fingers the number of journalists who are actually trustworthy and who write about important issues. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A lot of publications and media outlets are being shut down altogether or the people in charge are being forced out. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">People who make news and are involved in cultural issues are put into a difficult situation. In order to be relevant and important, you have to write about what is happening here and now. But if you try and do that, you can immediately lose access to most outlets and platforms and you won\u2019t be able to tell your stories. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>While we are talking about what has been in the news in Russia, what are they saying about the situation in Ukraine now?<\/b><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_11297\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"width: 279px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11297\" src=\"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/ellisoncenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2017\/03\/svidanya-212x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"279\" height=\"395\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/ellisoncenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2017\/03\/svidanya-212x300.jpg 212w, https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/ellisoncenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2017\/03\/svidanya-768x1086.jpg 768w, https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/ellisoncenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2017\/03\/svidanya-724x1024.jpg 724w, https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/ellisoncenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2017\/03\/svidanya-375x530.jpg 375w, https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/ellisoncenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2017\/03\/svidanya-750x1061.jpg 750w, https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/ellisoncenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2017\/03\/svidanya-1140x1613.jpg 1140w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 279px) 100vw, 279px\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8220;When I was young, I had a date lined up on every corner.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">News, especially television, is structured like a television drama. People are losing their jobs, they can\u2019t get basic services like medicine or education. So they go home angry and turn on the television. A soap opera begins and the TV tells them, \u201clook how it is in Ukraine. They are all fascists there. You are living well here in Russia.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A lot of people believe this. It\u2019s a common attitude that, well at least we have stability and we don\u2019t have a war here like in Ukraine.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I know a lot of refugees from Eastern Ukraine who are also the kind of people who are only watching Russian television, so they ran away because of what they saw on television.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Ukraine now has a growing art and fashion scene that has been getting some press abroad. Is there much communication between the Russian and Ukrainian arts communities? <\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">There were very strong connections before the war. But a lot of Ukrainian artists don\u2019t want to participate in projects in Russia on principle. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>What about Russian artists?<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">It\u2019s not clear why Russian artists should go there now. They should show work that addresses the situation, but that kind of work isn\u2019t really being made. Criticizing the war in Ukraine is a taboo subject for us. Saying that Crimea doesn\u2019t belong to Russia, for example, is basically a crime against the state because you are speaking against the unity of the federation. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Not long ago, Ukrainian writer Serhiy Zhadan was arrested in Minsk because of his ban from Russia. Do you see politics disrupting cultural exchange in the region? <\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">My attitudes toward this are pretty clear. It feels like anything you do puts you in danger and any decision you make can mean that you will have to answer for it. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>What else do you think is important for us to know here at the University of Washington?<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Everyone is probably interested in the connection between Trump and Putin. I can assure you that we do not control Donald Trump. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">For a while, news about what was happening in America was getting into the official press, and everybody was getting so excited thinking that Trump loved Russia and he was going to cancel sanctions and everything was going to be great. They reported that he believed Crimea was part of Russia. Of course, it turned out that all of this was fake news, so eventually Putin ordered the media to talk less about Trump. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>Victoria Lomasko&#8217;s graphic journalism is on display at <a href=\"http:\/\/fantagraphics.com\/flog\/events\/seattle-russians-exhibition-opening\/\">Fantagraphics Bookstore and Gallery<\/a> in Georgetown through April 5.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is no secret that journalists and artists are under increasing pressure to steer clear of touchy subjects and unflattering portrayals of the Kremlin in today\u2019s Russia. Victoria Lomasko, whose work stands at an intersection of art and journalism, understands that\u00a0better than most. From the lives of sex workers to juvenile prisons, her graphic reportage<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/ellisoncenter\/news\/graphic-journalist-victoria-lomasko-sheds-light-on-invisible-parts-of-russian-society\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":504,"featured_media":11392,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Graphic Journalist Victoria Lomasko Sheds Light on &#039;Invisible&#039; Parts of Russian Society - The Ellison Center<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/ellisoncenter\/news\/graphic-journalist-victoria-lomasko-sheds-light-on-invisible-parts-of-russian-society\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Graphic Journalist Victoria Lomasko Sheds Light on &#039;Invisible&#039; Parts of Russian Society - The Ellison Center\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"It is no secret that journalists and artists are under increasing pressure to steer clear of touchy subjects and unflattering portrayals of the Kremlin in today\u2019s Russia. 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