In the ground of Jokan-ji, also know as the ” Nage komi Dera / 投込寺 / the throw away temple” the corpes of more than 2500 nameless women, sex workers of the yoshiwara district, where dumped between 1743 and 1801
Nage Komi Dera // Japan
Xenomorphic // Switzerland
Biomechanical Venus & Bullet babies at the H.R.Giger museum / Gruyères / Switzerland
At the east of the Dniester river .. nothing // Transnistria
Beyond easy labels of “Soviet theme park” or ” puppet state” given by international press , the breakaway state of Transnistria ( aka Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic ) could be a glimpse into the not so far future of crimea …
Stalin’s Underground Printing House // Georgia
Stalin’s Underground Printing House in Tbilisi (Georgia), from 1903 to 1906 the Bolsheviks printed thousands of trilingual brochures (Georgian, Russian, Armenian) on this old german press.
The 60’s pool // Abkhazia
The 60’s pool // Gagra // Abkhazia
Obsolete body // Georgia
Obsolete body // Georgia
Monolith // Iraqi kurdistan
“It was the mark of a barbarian to destroy something one could not understand.”
― Arthur C. Clarke, 2001: A Space Odyssey
Soviet Mural in Minsk // Belarus
Soviet Mural near Frunzenskaya metro station // Minsk // Belarus
Nemui // Japan
Nemui // Studio Six // Tokyo // Japan
My home // Georgia
Tskaltubo (Georgian: წყალტუბო) was a busy spa resort during Soviet times and keeps the memory of regular Stalin visits. Nowadays many of the sanatorium complexes have been re-assigned into housing complexes for refugees that have been displaced from their homes because ethnic conflicts in Abkhazia and South Ossetia.
