Meet Vlada

Today's visit: Dutch photographer Bertien van Manen's exhibition Let's Sit Down Before We Go at Foam Amsterdam

(selection of pictures taken in Russia 1991-2009; "before leaving for a long journey, Russian people sit down for a moment and think about where they will be going and why. The atmosphere in the pictures of Bertien van Manen is like this")

Vlada in the kitchen, Kazan 1992 © Bertien van Manen