The photo series is based on dystopian novel by Yevgeny Zamyatin’s “We”. “We” is a powerfully inventive vision that has influenced writers from George Orwell to Ayn Rand. Set in the twenty-sixth century AD, «We” is the classic dystopian novel was suppressed for many years in Russia and remains a resounding cry for individual freedom.
In a glass-enclosed city of absolute straight lines, ruled over by the all-powerful “Benefactor”, the citizens of the totalitarian society of One State live lives devoid of passion and creativity — until D-503, a mathematician who dreams in numbers, makes a discovery: he has an individual soul.
D-503’s lover, O-90, has been assigned by One State to visit him on certain nights.
While on an assigned walk with O-90, D-503 meets a woman named I-330. I-330 smokes cigarettes, drinks alcohol, and shamelessly flirts with D-503 instead of applying for an impersonal sex visit; all of these are illegal according to the laws of One State. However, it leads to personal human connection and leads to what nowadays people still call “Love”.