Fyodor Telkov sees the Urals as it has never been seen before: multi-nationality takes on artistic form, and the industrial combines with the natural. Calling his photo series "36 Views", the photographer refers to the famous engravings of Hokusai, but shows an artificial mountain which symbolizes the result and consequence of the powerful industrial development of the last century. Giant dumps of spent ore shape the landscape of a small provincial town in a new way: these are the Ural Mountains, created by people, it is neither nature, nor industrialism.

The project, called "Tales" combines mythology and the culture of an industrial plant. Everything mysterious and hidden in the Urals is embodied by Telkov in abstract images, mixing reality and fiction.

In addition, Fyodor Telkov interprets the theme of the Urals prisons and prisoners in an artistic way. The Urals region has historically been in closed, remote and hidden margins, where some fled and others were exiled. "The Other Side of the Wall" series (in collaboration with the photographer Denis Tarasov) brings together a summary of a large-scale study of prison colonies and prisons, archives and museums with conversations with prisoners and guards. Photographers don't make judgments and don't seek to cause pity: on the contrary, they show the reality of the life of prisoners as it is.