Defying decency and Soviet prohibitions, photographer Nikolay Bakharev browses through Siberian beaches, capturing women and men’s candid and corporeal tenderness. During the 1980s, additionally to working for communal services factory photographer in the USSR, he would solicit work as a black market portrait photographer on the public beaches of provincial Eastern Russia. If the shoot went well, he would invite his subjects to make further images in a more intimate setting, compelling his subjects over several hours into contorted, erotically charged poses. Nikolay’s photographs reveal the longing and dampened dreams of the inhabitants of an industrial town and the desires of an unrelenting artist.