Brothers Berezutski
Soviet poster-inspired portrait of the Berezutski brothers for NPLH’s Fraternity issue, built from twin iconography, severity, and deliberate overstatement.
About the Project
Created for NPLH issue 8: Fraternity.
The brief became an excuse to push hard into Soviet poster language: twins, spirit bears, coal dust, Cyrillic, and faces rendered as if they had been quarried rather than painted.
The result treats the Berezutski brothers less as footballers and more as symbolic figures drawn from a harsher graphic mythology. As with most work from this period, it was built largely on the iPad — and my apologies remain in force for anyone who actually understands Russian.
A curated image run built to let the print object, surface, and detail breathe on the page.
Open any figure to inspect surface, print detail, and framing more closely without losing the overall sequence.
Sequence note
The closing plates are intended to read like a print-room pass: object, surface, and image held in sequence rather than treated as isolated uploads.
