For his new collection of photographs, Lyudmila and Natasha, award-winning photographer Misha Friedman trains his lens on a gay couple living in Saint Petersburg. The book offers a series of intimate snapshots of their relationship as it unfolds over the course of a year.

Faced with a hostile political climate, financial difficulties, and often unstable living arrangements, the subjects of this stunning book reveal the possibilities for love in the most uncertain of times. This book powerfully evokes both a vital place and the people who call it home.