MARI EL
a pagan beauty
1st Color Edition
2021 Voglino Editrice
500 copies
27,5 x 23,5 cm
Hard cover
120 pages
Texts: Denis Osokin
Editing: Annalisa D’angelo
Color Correction: Paolo Lecca
Graphic project: Anna Lavezzoli
English / Italian
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In the surroundings of Yoshkar-Ola, in the Republic of Mari-el, a remote rural area of central Russia, lives the last pagan population of the West.
The book is the result of photographic and socio-anthropological research lasting 8 years, lived in direct contact with a peasant ethic not yet affected by time.
The photos of the author Raffaele Petralla won the Voglino Prize 2018 and the Festival of Ethical Photography in Lodi.