A Treasure Coming To Life

Arseny Tarkovsky, Leningrad, USSR, 1981 | Masha Ivashintsova

Eventually, Egor started bringing the negatives to life and Aysa managed to bring herself up to see the legacy of her mother, however painful it might be. Soon it was evident that what they had stumbled upon were not ordinary photographs. The collection consisted of 30,000 incredible underdeveloped negatives.