The Road Not Taken
Alena Leskova
For a book published by BYRC, I have curated and designed the photo selection by Alena Leskova.
The Road Not Taken brings together photographs made across nearly two decades, combining images from 2008–2011 with more recent work. Moving through landscapes, objects and quiet everyday gestures, the book traces the passage of time and returns, again and again, to a private, unresolved question — what might have happened had another path been taken.
Structured non-chronologically, the images are not arranged to tell a story in sequence but to let different years speak to one another directly: a photograph from 2009 can sit beside one made only months ago, each altering how the other is read. In this movement across time, chronology dissolves into something closer to memory itself — associative, recursive, not entirely reliable.The book does not attempt to reconstruct a life in order, nor to explain the choices that shaped it. Instead, it gestures toward the slow accumulation of small decisions and quiet observations that only become visible as change, looking back. The Road Not Taken invites the viewer to sit inside that uncertainty — the space between what happened and what might have — and to recognise, in Leskova’s work, something of their own unresolved paths.
Curated and designed by Eugenia Ignatova, co-designed by Alena Leskova.
Published by BYRC
