For his new collection of photographs, Lyudmila and Natasha, award-winning photographer Misha Friedman trains his lens on a gay couple living on Saint Petersburg, offering a series of intimate snapshots of their relationship as it unfolds over the course of a year. Faced with a hostile political climate, financial difficulties and often unstable living arrangements, the subjects of this stunning book reveal the possibilities for love in the most uncertain of times. This book powerfully evokes both a vital place and the people who call it home.

Author Biography

Misha Friedman is an award-winning documentary photographer who has worked for various NGOs, including Medecins Sans Frontieres, in Uganda, Nigeria, India, and Darfur. His recent projects deal with the tuberculosis epidemic in the former Soviet Union and corruption in Russia. His photographs have appeared in the "New York Times," the "Los Angeles Times," and the "New Yorker," among other publications. He lives in New York City.