Where The Poplars Grow – Irina Unruh

A photographic memoir in which Irina Unruh, who left Kyrgyzstan as a nine-year-old in 1988, returns to her home village of Telman (Gruenfeld). Landscapes, family pictures and album fragments trace the history of Russian-Germans, flight and belonging. Awarded Silver at the Deutscher Fotobuchpreis 2024/25.

118 pages, Hardcover, 16.5 x 22 cm, German/English, 2024. Publisher: Shift Books.