In Olympic Sochi, a Photographic Pregame
By MATT MCCANN
When the Olympic torch reaches Sochi, Russia, to begin the Winter Games two months from now, it will have traveled farther than any other torch in Winter Olympics history. Since its odyssey began in Moscow, the torch has been carried by foot, on trains, planes and troikas, taken to the North Pole via icebreaker and into lower Earth orbit on a Soyuz rocket.
The #Olympics are built on boasts, and Sochi 2014 is no exception. Though plagued by corruption and other controversies — insufficiently cold weather, uncertainty about the presence of antidoping agencies, power failures, #Russia ’s ban on “gay propaganda” — they are the most lavish and costliest Olympics, approached as though the International Olympic Committee was expecting titans to clash in its stadiums.
But the
#photographer Mikhail Mordasov wasn’t interested in the superlatives or the hype: he wanted to cut through all the commotion coming out of the
#Black_Sea resort area and reveal the
#landscape, the city and its
#people.
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