Odessa in 1982. Photos by British photojournalist Ian Berry
27 Jan, 2021
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In 1982, the Magnum Photos photojournalist took a series of street photos about the life of Soviet citizens of Odessa.
Ian Berry was born in Lancashire, England. He made his reputation in South Africa, where he worked for the Daily Mail and later for Drum magazine. He was the only photographer to document the massacre at Sharpeville in 1960, and his photographs were used in the trial to prove the victims' innocence.
Important editorial assignments have included work for National Geographic, Fortune, Stern, Geo, national Sunday magazines, Esquire, Paris-Match and Life. Berry has also reported on the political and social transformations in China and the former USSR
In 1964, Berry moved to London and started working for Observer Magazine. Since then, he has traveled the world filming documentary photographs of social and political struggles in China, the Republic of the Congo, Czechoslovakia, Ethiopia, Israel, Ireland, Vietnam and the countries of the former Soviet Union.
In 1982, Ian Berry traveled to Odessa and took a series of photographs about the life of Soviet citizens of Odessa. This is how he captured her:
At the monument. 1982A woman gardener spraying with a hosepipe in front of the colonnades of Count Vorontson's Palace. 1982 At the rehearsal of the puppet show in the theater. 1982 In Shevchenko park At the Starokonny marketSaint Panteleimon CathedralStolyarsky music school student Woman trying to sell flowers to a man An event at the city centre Women in the market Tourists at the Potemkin Stairs Ukrainian ballet troupe performs on the stage of the Odessa Opera and Ballet Theater At the Stroygidravlika plant, which produces engines for cranes, excavators, etc. At the museum Stolyarsky Music school Ballerinas during rehearsal In kindergarten Children rehearse the play Driver with his car decorated with wedding flowers and a doll waits for the bride and groom to emerge after their wedding. 1982The Boulevard Stairway or better known as the Potemkin Steps after the Battleship Potemkin, the crew of which went on strike against their officers in 1905. At the bottom a large Russian Hammer and Sickle. 1982Woman hanging out washing in a patch of sunshine in an overall view of the city. 1982Ukraine. Odessa. Interior of theatre and opera house moments before a performance. 1982
