GRAUBARD, Robin (New York, 1951)Road to Nowhere, Eastern Erope 1993-1995

Graubard's crude diaries on Eastern Europe from 1993 to 1995 reveal a fearless, no-nonsense account of the turmoil and change in the Balkans.
Road to Nowhere is the first publication by a voice underrepresented in the photographic narrative. Having grown up in the counterculture and New York punk scenes of the 1960s and 1970s, Graubard's intimate and striking approach to photography found a voice of its own when she settled in Eastern Europe in the early 1990s, witnessing the Yugoslav war, the Bosnian genocide and the Kosovo uprising. Working in total autonomy, Graubard pursued stories where her heart led her, discovering the suffering and hardship of orphanages, institutions, war and hunger, but also the joy of emerging subcultures and post-Soviet identity among the young populations of Russia, Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria, Serbia, Bosnia and others. Featuring many images that have remained almost completely unpublished for almost thirty years, Road to Nowhere will be the first major publication of Graubard's work.

Photographer Robin Graubard's exhibition history includes "Noise: Young American Photography", TH-Inside, Milan and Berlin, Momenta Art, NY, White Columns, NYC, CB's 313 Gallery, NYC, Participant Inc., NYC, Photographic Research Center, Boston, MA, and a solo exhibition at Anthology Film Archives, NYC (1998). Winner of the Rema Hort M Artists' Fellowship.