Non touristic Moscow.

[alexvaras]

Hi all,

So far I have been shooting the nice parts of Moscow, downtown streets, parks, boulevards, churches, people resting and happy. Well all these represents less than 1% of Russia.
I'm going to try to shoot the "ugly" Moscow, suburbs, inner yards, broken things that no one repairs or cares about and such things.
There is always a reason why these things are this way and I will try to explain it, this way a foreigner can get the idiosyncrasy of the city/country/people.

The first photo is located between boulevards, the inner yard of an old building where many restaurant are located, the inner yard is full of a/c machines and smoke escape fans for kitchens. Need to check if the restaurant in front works or its closed.


Broken door.

Thank you for watching.

[GrahamS]

Fascinating. If that is graffiti on the door it's very good. The standard of bricklaying leaves something to be desired.

[alexvaras]

Fascinating. If that is graffiti on the door it's very good. The standard of bricklaying leaves something to be desired.

I will come back and check but I think it was a real graffiti.

[PFMcFarland]

Gritty is good. As long as they don't sic the dogs on you.

PF

[alexvaras]

Another shot belonging to this series, slow but steady
This time Plaubel Makina II with Orthar 73mm, film that I thought it was colour it was TriX 400, finally pushed to 1600 and developed as 1600. I'm not good at it, this is the only frame I could savage, others were tries to shoot inside the metro with very low light at f/6.3, I had one frame left and I think it came out decent.


Smoking point.

To the right the entrance to the lab I'm about to leave, they are in a old factory building. Everyone comes here for smoking.
More to come.

Thank you,
Alex