In the Tengger desert in northwest China, laborers press bunches of straw into the sand in an attempt to combat desertification and sandstorms. On this vast expanse, their work looks like a Sisyphean task.

An impressionistic black-and-white portrait of a Russian health spa. Bureaucratic complexities and salutary health benefits coalesce in this apparent allegory for a complex society rooted in rules, prohibitions, and the illusion of security.