Every season, Rob Hornstra selects an image from his archive and makes it available as an exclusive handmade C-print (36 x 42 cm / 14.2 x 16.5 in). The number of buyers determines the print run, up to a maximum of 25. Once the season is over, the image is no longer reprinted. This offer runs until 31 March 2020. Prints will be shipped in April 2020.

“Recently I rediscovered this photo while scrolling through early designs of the book The Sochi Project: An Atlas of War and Tourism in the Caucasus. Towards the publication date, it had suddenly disappeared from the edit. I have no idea why.”

Nikolay Felipovich Khokhlov - 89 years old - has worked for the secret service all of his working life. He started at a young age during the Second World War, where he visited hospitals in the region around Krasnoyarsk searching for soldiers who had injured themselves on the way to the front in order to avoid the war.

“If you’d walked around Sochi at that time, you can be sure I’d have been watching you every minute of every day.”
—Nikolay Felipovich Khokhlov, 2009

During his career with the KGB he was promoted to lieutenant colonel and transferred to Sochi. There he became responsible for spying on foreigners. “If you’d walked around Sochi at that time, you can be sure I’d have been watching you every minute of every day,” he laughs.

Title: Nikolay Khokhlov, Sochi, Russia, 2009
From the series: Communism & Cowgirls
Original: Large Format 4x5” negative film
Print technique: Analogue handmade C-print
Paper size: 36 x 42 cm (14.2 x 16.5 in) / Image 30 x 36 cm

In addition to the purchase of the Winter Print 2020, you can choose to have the same work immediately framed. Please click here for more information.