Black-and-white faces. Eyes that have witnessed decades of prison life and streets ruled by shadow codes. Bodies inked with stars, spiders, cats and cathedrals - symbols of rank, loyalty and defiance.
A new city-wide exhibition exhibition in Brussels, Surrounded by Criminals, invites visitors into the hidden underworld of the Vory v Zakone, the post-Soviet “thieves in law” brotherhood who once controlled the criminal networks of Stalin-era gulags.
