© Harald Hund, June 2024
Censored post on Instagram. Meant as an allegory, Instagram refused the post as it allegedly shows sexual content. Quite fittingly instead, the gag-ball mask can be read as a metaphor for censorship.
Footnote: Around the time of the photo shoot, Kazakh opposition journalist Aidos Sadikov was shot in Kyiv on the same day that his last video about the Russian influence on Kazakhstan was published. One wonders how easily the arm of a regime reaches out into a land which is under war.
