Aleksey Kondratyev – Worker

Aleksey Kondratyev – WorkerIn an unprecedented collaboration with one of America's largest construction companies, Kyrgyz American artist Aleksey Kondratyev was granted full access to enormous construction sites across the country, from airports to highways and skyscrapers. Kondrateyev's images focus on the individual worker in an empathetic portrait of skill, trust and collaboration, where each individual plays a part in realising projects of dizzying scale. Working with the

Inside one of its cells

Designed to be used as either a book end or a book stand

fortifications

and shoots onto black and white negative film

80 tritone plates

abandoned buildings

Der Spiegel

Complimented by a Louis Fratino dust jacket of half-etched figures and mysterious symbols

the typography of road signs

Text in French and English

or Weggefährten

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