21st Annual Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest People
Buried alive

The local theater was performing in the streets during an art festival. The topic of the play was ecology and trash pollution. Actors narrated the story of people trying to survive after civilization. When they finished, one of the actresses said that at one moment she realized that she was feeling true primal fear. It was so strange and so real, she said. When I looked at the pictures after the play, I saw this fear in that photo. The fear, that the reality of the performance, where she was doomed to be buried under thousands and thousands of tons of trash, may one day become an actual reality...

Photo Detail
Date Taken: 05.2023
Date Uploaded: 10.2023
Photo Location: Tyumen, Russia
Camera: NIKON D5100
Copyright: © Daniil Mogilnikov