Lost Territories Archive (LTA)
Over the course of eight years (2008–16), members of the international, Poland-based Sputnik Photos collective set out to survey the physical, political, and sociocultural terrain of a post-Soviet region.
In this area timelines don’t always agree to unfold chronologically and a spectral Empire, a quarter of a century after its fragmentation, refuses to be consigned to the dustbin of memory.
In the process, the collective’s journeying photographers ended up assembling a composite documentary record comprised of some several thousand photographs geographically and thematically spanning the breadth of the former Soviet Union—images which have since been constellated together within Sputnik’s overarching Lost Territories Archive (LTA) project.
