Book DescriptionIts official The gulags of Siberia are no more Solzhenitsins nightmare of the absurd does not exist The prisons are still there, of course, with plenty of customers, probably more than a million, such as the 15-year-old boyserving three and a half years for stealing two hamsters from a Moscow pet shop, or the mother of four who озгмы stole 12 cabbages what can have possessed her? and was rewarded with four years in Siberia So the inhuman lunacy still exists, but it is now officially apolitical In reality it is an economic social endeavour It does not pay to be a poor thief in Russia, since you will not have the resources to avoid the interminable train ride to the East when you are caught Carl De Keyzer took that journey to photograph the prisons today With two army colonels as his shadows, one to the left and one to the right, he photographed what he was allowed to see, and no more But he has revealed a kind of winter wonderland, a Disneyland where all normal credibility is suspended look, for example, at the tattoos in the photographs "Where do they come from?" he asked The answer came: "What tattoos? There are no tattoos They are illegal " So they dont exist Your eyes decieve you It has been said that the collective memory is black and white In Zona, De Keyzer has elaborated on the brocaded fantasy of the Siberian prisons by using brilliant colour, as if from a hallucinatory dream Look at the faces, and then the eyes, of the prisoners There is a Zen despair there, as if they were wearing lederhosen in a remarkable holiday camp They tell a disturbing story.  Данный труд2003 г 108 стр ISBN 0954264843.