Wednesday (1997)

Victor Kossakovsky searched obsessively for inhabitants of St Petersburg who were born on Wednesday 19 July 1961 his own birthday in former Leningrad Fiftyone women and fifty men fitted the profile In the course of time a few of these 101 people had died others had moved to another community or abroad But in 1995 Kossakovsky managed to capture on film all seventy remaining residents in the street at work or simply at home While doing so he spent time with doctors and patients entertainers and businessmen construction workers and homeless people In his unorthodox style Kossakovsky has produced a beautiful profile of people in their thirties in St Petersburg