“There is no real sense of time on the mountain—just dawn and dusk and easy hours inbetween.”
"Mountain Retreat," Earl Miller
Penthouse, Vol. 7. No. 1. September 1975.
City of Shadows. Saint Petersburg, Russia, 1990s. Photo by Alexey Titarenko.
After the fall of the USSR, despair and alienation settled over the city. Feeling this most near metro stations, Titarenko used long exposures of several seconds, sometimes minutes, turning the crowds into shadowy figures.