Dean Sewell’s boxes of black and white film capturing Moscow in the mid-1990s had laid untouched for a quarter of a century. When he finally developed them, it was like ‘reaching into the deep recesses of your brain’
As renewed tensions between Ukraine and Russia began to stir late last year, Sydney photographer Dean Sewell began to recall the year he spent living in the newly dismantled USSR more than a quarter of a century earlier.
The multiple international award-winning photographer knew he had dozens of rolls of black and white film he had shot in and around Moscow in the mid-1990s, but he had never had the chance to develop them.
