Oleg Videnin’s striking portraits allow us to glimpse into the intimate emotions of his regular but extraordinary subjects from the forgotten corners of today’s rural Russia. Videnin was recently featured in the NYTimes LENS photography blog, and his Valentina in White has been selected to be exhibited at the National Portrait Gallery in London in connection with the Taylor Wessing Photographic Prize contest.

The opening of The Journey Home is timed to coincide with the release of Oleg Videnin’s first book titled “The Return Route.”