Shooting with an iPhone, says French photographer Frédéric Noy, is like “delicate psychotherapy. Generally, you get caught. Taking a couple of footage with an iPhone is sort of a liberation. A reset, a second of reflection. You see issues otherwise.”
Noy arrived in Nur-Sultan, the capital of Kazakhstan, mid-pandemic, after a few years in Africa, the place he had documented the day by day lives of persecuted LGBTQ+ Ugandans; he had received World Press Picture and Visa d’Or awards for his work on the environmental catastrophe in Lake Victoria. “I wished to go someplace as distant and as completely different as potential,” he says. “Kazakhstan was the final nation to depart the USSR, and it’s nonetheless developing its identification. That’s what me. All I knew about it was cliche.”
He took this picture in early Could 2021, when, on the final day of time period, pupils, their academics and a few mother and father positioned flowers on the statue of Aliya Moldagulova, a Kazakh-born sniper who died of battle wounds in 1944 and was made a hero of the Soviet Union.
“Like Russia, they have fun Victory Day right here on 9 Could,” Noy says. “The shot intrigues me as a result of the kids’s uniforms look nearly just like the Crimson Military. In a rustic that solely turned impartial in 1991, when the Kazakhs have been a minority of their homeland, there’s a transparent stress between the nationwide and the Soviet identification.”
It’s a part of what he calls his challenge scrapbook. “I hardly ever take the identical footage with my cellphone and with my cameras,” he says. “The intention could be very completely different. It’s like a sketch, I suppose. I really feel generally I’m not the identical photographer.”
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