Dezhnevo. A small village near the Amur River in what was once Soviet Birobidzhan. Close to the border with China. A black and white photograph of four new school teachers, young, standing together on a broken road. Recently arrived. Trans-Siberian. Hopeful faces--two are almost smiling--but the photo has been folded and a crease runs through on the diagonal...
Wooden power poles, rough houses seen across a muddy field... Amur Cossacks, Koreans, Russian Jews...
(in progress)
