photography + creative direction + exhibition production
Мать and отец are coming from Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. On the 8th May 1992 my Мать migrated to Germany. My отец came one year later. For almost 30 years they live as foreigners. They have two children together, me Максим Викторович and my brother Ян Викторович. We spent our childhood in a small city. It was normal for us to grow up with two cultures. Our milieu were families, which haven't their roots in Germany, too. Only when my teacher from elementary school told me, I could never get it through High School, I realised, we are different. We have taken over a lot of the German culture, but we are mixing it with our Russian familiar world. This makes us to something, which is hard to put in a box. Мать and отец are wealthy over the average and have integrated to the German society. This doesn't make them to Germans. My brother and I were born and raised in Germany. This doesn't make us to Germans. The other part of family lives in Russia. This doesn't make us to Russians. Who are мы without a clear national identity?
