The Blue Carpet at this year’s St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (“Russia’s Davos”) framed the Entrance Steps for a variety of glamorous performances. Business men, photographers, journalists, conference personnel, an anthropologist, politicians, within a moments pass through this space igniting a sensory experience and thus, a sensible experience.
The steps set a colored fabric (blue carpet) — to an entrance of a conference — placing on display a fleeting phenomena of images that portray Russian political and economic power — ostentatious self-representation, fashion and elites.
Paparazzi Ethnography 
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