Photographer Barry Lewis has revisited the photos he took during a 1991 trip to Siberia of the brutal Soviet Gulag system.
The Gulags were a repressive system of forced labor camps in the Soviet Union that cost the lives of millions of people.arrived in Siberia in 1991 during the glasnost era when the USSR embraced a more open attitude.
He captured structures built by the hands of the prisoners who were sometimes incarcerated over something petty like owning a book of forbidden poems.An ex-political prisoner holding his old records in a former prison cell.Lewis was commissioned byto visit the Gulags during the dying days of the Soviet era. The Gulag system was championed by Joseph Stalin who used it as an instrument of political repression — often sending people there without a trial.
After Stalin died in 1953, steps were taken to dismantle the Gulag system with a definitive ending in 1960. “These five years were full of a heady hope for a new future for the old empire, as the reforms revealed some of the horrors and inefficiencies of its Soviet past”Young men hanging out on their Jupiter motorbikes and sidecars in Ust’-Omchug.
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