Heroes of Labour — Gleb Kosorukov, 1st edition, Steidl 2018

In 1935 a miner became a global icon of productivity. Seventy-four years later, this project returns to that myth at the moment of its collapse. Shot in eastern Ukraine in a mine bearing Stakhanov’s name, 100 portraits capture workers during shift change, faces blackened, gaze direct. As over 100,000 miners faced redundancy, the book confronts the erosion of industrial labour and the afterlife of Soviet heroism. A precise, austere study of image, ideology and work. Out of print.

Technical Sheet
Title: Heroes of Labour
Artist / Author: Gleb Kosorukov
Date: 2018
Edition: First edition
Medium / Materials: Hardback, clothbound
Dimensions (cm): 24.5 × 34 cm
Pages: 160 (100 images)
Language: English
Publisher / Editor: Steidl
ISBN: 978-3-86930-689-6