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CNN מציגה מזה כמה ימים סדרת תצלומים מאת הצלם הרוסי Alexey Titarenko, שכותרתה 'City of shadows'. התצלומים האלה נוצרו בסנט פטרסבורג בסוף העידן הסובייטי ומבטאים ראיה חזקה, מטאפורית ובהירה:

"I saw people on the verge of insanity, in confusion: unattractively dressed men and women with eyes full of sorrow and desperation, tottering on their routine dreary routes with their last ounce of strength, in search of some food which could prolong their lives and the lives of their families. They looked like shadows, undernourished and worn out. My impressions as well as my emotional state were enormously powerful and long lasting.
“I felt an intense desire to articulate these sufferings and grieving, to visualize them through my photographs, to awaken empathy and love for my native city’s inhabitants.
“More than anything, I wanted to convey my ‘people-shadows’ metaphor as accurately as possible. This metaphor became the core of both my new vision and new series. I placed my Hasselblad camera near the entrance to the Vasileostrovskaya subway station, where the shopping district was located. It was a place where time had come to a standstill. This perception of time stopped convinced me that it could also be stopped by means of a camera shutter using ‘long exposure.’ A crowd of people flowing near the subway station formed a sort of human sea, providing me with a feeling of nonreality, a phantasmagoria; these people were like shadows from the underworld?

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Photograph: Alexey Titarenko

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