On the Verge 

Modern punks are young people of my generation born during Perestroika in Russia. They absorbed the uncertainty of the epoch, when the old ideology collapsed, and the new one had not been formed yet. Many of them experienced violence in childhood, social pressure, suffered from alcohol and drug addiction of their parents. But unlike the others, they are not silent. Punks stand for peaceful protests and openly declare their discontent, indicating the problems of modern society.

According to the independent analytical organization "Levada- Center" sociological survey held in September 2015, one in five Russian citizens would not tolerate punks and prefer to have them isolated from the society. One in ten Russians stands for eliminating the punks as a marginal social group totally. 

Kseniia Ivanova, a documentary photographer from Saint-Petersburg, Russia. She was born on 4th April, 1990 in the USSR. She is a graduate of the FotoDepartament.Institute, where she followed the "Documentary Photography and Photojournalism" course (2014, curator Misha Domozhilov) and "The Power of Wednesday" course (2015, curator Yana Romanova). In photography her main interest is focused on the problem of personal and national identity.

Her long-term project about punk culture in Russia won the "Young Photographers of Russia - 2015", she took 2nd place in the international competition Direct Look (2015) and received several other awards. Kseniia`s projects were published in Russian magazines Ogonyok, Takie dela and foreign magazines Courrier Japon, Меduza.io.