Lena 2
Photo by @mmordasov from Apatity, Russia. Lena thinks that people in her native town are sad and they have queer goals in life.#fitness #polarnight #apatity #everydayrussia
Month: December 2015
Lena
Photo by @mmordasov from Apatity, Russia. I met Lena in a gym. She is a very optimistic and energetic person, she is a student and works as a fitness trainer. Lena was born in Apatity, and now she is going to leave this small northern town for southern city of Krasnodar. #everydayrussia #apatity #polarnight #fitness
Stalin Empire style station
Photo by @mmordasov from Kirovsk, Russia. This Stalin Empire style station was built on the stub track in small town Kirovsk in 1930th. Nowadays trains aren’t running, the railway station is deserted and destroyed. Tourist like this place, so do I.#polarnight #stalin #everydayrussia #kirovsk
Christopher Nunn – Ukraine 2013-2015
Christopher Nunn Ukraine 2013-2015 This on-going series began in February 2013 when I travelled to Ukraine following a thread of family history to the sleeper town of Kalush, the birthplace of my then-ailing grandmother. She left at 14 before arriving in England as a displaced person after World War II. Never intending to document my …
Valentina
Photo by @mmordasov from Apatity, Russia. Yesterday I went to a forest to enjoy a fog and made some photos. There I met Valentina. She is on retirement now, and she goes in for sports every day, likes both alpine and cross-country skiing. Valentina said, Sport is life.#apatity #polarnight #everydayrussia #crosscountry
Physiotherapy
Photo by @mmordasov from Apatity, RussiaThe boy caught a cold, and now he get a physiotherapy. His mother said that they often appeared in the media. It happened for the first time when she gave a birth to the son. #everydayrussia #polarnight #apatity
Plants
Photo by @mmordasov from Apatity, Russia. Northerners feel the lack of sunlight and green plants. You can find pot plants almost in every home and office. The most common place for plants is an inside windowsill. People often fix daylight lamps above sills to help the plant grow. Today I spent some hours in a …
Mongrel Bim
Photo by @mmordasov from Apatity, Russia. Mongrel Bim is supposed to be a guard in a centre where pedigree sledge dogs live and work. But we found Bim loud but slightly coward. The owner assured us that the dog was smart and cunning. Some time ago Bim imagined itself to be a leader of a …