Klimov witnessed the end of the Soviet regime. He’s personal development as a photographer also coincides with the perestroika and glasnost of the late ’80s, the fall of the Soviet Union and the reformations for the country following upon this

Klimov hates the war and in same time can’t live without it. But he differs from typical pacifists described in books, as he is a pacifist with anarchist lifestyles — he belongs to reality

Klimov seeks the truth which he needs and which he wants others to understand. If some people want to wipe out the communist ideology and everything that has to do with it, he sets off to the Garden of Eden and seeks another ideology

After wars Klimov needs another distress just to put out the fire into himself and finds it on the water, filming stories along the shores of Russia

My understanding of the subconscious of a huge empire, nearly a continent, was not formed through reading books – they were rather proof to what I saw – but through hearing simple stories from the people whom I met on the islands scattered in the ocean