He travelled around Russia taking photos of various places using his special camera around 1905-1915. His camera took three exposures for each light component. These sets of three black and white photos were very difficult to merge to a complete color print on his time but couple years ago they were scanned and processed using modern technology. Library of Congress has 'The Empire That Was Russia' exhibition and many of the processed photos can be seen online.
I wonder if Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky thought his photos would have such an important historical value after so many years. In our current lifestyle photos usually became useless as soon as nobody remembers where it was taken and who were on it. In case of digital photography I am not too sure how well digital archives survive for one hundred years. And how to write all the important information on the back of the digital image? In any case, I would be very curious to know what kind of piece of history future generations will find as fascinating as these old color photos.
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