Dutch photographer travels across Russia spending the night in stranger’s homes (27 Photos)

#1 #10 In Soviet Russia walls paper you!

And they thought they could win the Cold War!!! Silly Russians

I do NOT want to go to there…

Average people living near poverty welcome a complete stranger with a camera into their house to share their meager belongings and to have what looks like a lot of fun (and vodka) and most of the commenters here just say "glad to be an American" or something equally condescending. Hey, try knocking on a random door anywhere here and asking the homeowner if you can spend the night and take pictures and see if you make it to door number 2 without getting shot in the face.

we complain yet have so much. We live such privlaged lives.

This post proves everything Patton said about the Russians. LMAO

What creepy effing pictures : S

#9 in soviet russia, pictures take you!

My garage is better furnished than these places.
#1 classy kid will go far in life.

She's doing it in the US now also. Basically she finds the most disgusting / underprivileged people possible, I mean really really disgusting and underprivileged people mooches off of them for a few days, takes photographs, then tries to get famous for taking photos of unfortunate people who have no clue they are being exploited. She sells her photos in books and goes on talk shows in NL.

-Source: I met her while she was being escorted around by poor people in the US.

Reminds me of what it looked like growing up in the '70s….if we never remodeled and let everything go to shit.
Oh well, "The things you own… end up owning you."

#3 #8 #10 #27 Not too many concerns about 1st world problems here. "I thought I had it hard because I had no shoes, until I saw a man who had no feet"……so said my grandmother.

Communism: Putting countries 4 decades behind the modern world for 150 years.

This guy is a freakin Perv! Also they must not have any paint in russia cuz there is a lot of crappy wallpaper.

Brace yourselves for the coming "In russia…." jokes.

Very depressing.. I totally understand now, send them more vodka!

No doubt we have places and families like that here in the US.
Moon shine instead of vodka, crack instead of food,,,,,,
Think of when you drive through some small towns and large cities.
The run-down urban areas and the crack problems. The rural towns with the meth,,,
One doesn't need to travel far to see how this country has fallen on it's face.

#4 #8 #24
Stranger in my house, taking photographs of my kids in their underwear or in bed..?…. I don't think so. She'd be shown either the door pretty damn fast! Female or not, it's just creepy to let a stranger do that.

I think I've seen all of that wallpaper in Russian porn,.

She's actually Belgian.. And she did the same thing in the US, the year afterwards.

#12 and #19 all resemble the making of a horror movie!haha

#4 now kiss

Apparently Russia hasn't changed since Stalin.

I am so glad my mother's family left there!

My wife, who its Russian, is offended by the description as "average"… the Trans-Siberian railway takes you through SIBERIA. This is not average – these photos show extreme poverty… far from average. Nice way to help keep up bad stereotypes…. morons.