Anastasia Khoroshilova Moscow, Russia, b. 1978

In her role as a social anthropologist working through photography, Anastasia Khoroshilova documented young children in Jewish schools in Moscow for her Narrow Circle series. The work supports her effort to capture the diversity of people living in Russia who do not conform to the stereotype of what one might consider “Russian.” All photographs are black and white and full body portraits of children in the hallways of their schools. In Narrow Circle #8, the young boy wears jeans, a hoodie, and a kippah. He is staring straight into the camera with his arms at his side. Besides the presence of the skullcap, there is nothing about these portraits that would indicate that children are either Jewish or Russian; they simply are children engaging in the universal task of going to school.