Acta est Book

This is the first book by the emerging photographer-artist Lise Sarfati. Composed of images made during extended visits to Russia during the 1990s. It is neither travelogue nor photojournalistic essay. Rather, Sarfati uses descriptions of the details of the Russian environments which fascinate her to create a visual drama - a personal theatre of dysfunction and deterioration, of change and beauty. The title - literally it (feminine) is over from the Latin phrase Acta Est Fabula meaning the play is over - signals her insistence that the work not be read as journalism but as a work of theatrical imagination.