Uncomfortable in its quiet frankness, Dima Markov's book '#Draft' evokes interest, respect, and a feeling of helplessness. The author's extreme life experiences, honestly documented in the book through text and photographs, are fascinating. I admire his openness and lack of moralizing regarding a difficult topic—the lives of people who, for various reasons, have found themselves on the margins, those commonly called marginalized.
The book contains one hundred and forty-three color photographs taken on a mobile phone between 2013 and 2017 in various parts of Russia. Through the specific details of the author's biography, environment, daily life, and places, a cultural geography familiar to many who were born and raised here emerges.
