Memorial to the Holodomor Victims ( 1932-1933 ) // Kiev // Ukraine
Holodomor (голодомо́р ) , literraly “Extermination by hunger”, was a man-made famine ( under the guidance of Joseph Stalin) which killed an estimated 2.5 to 7.5 million ukrainian between 1932 and 1933.
St Andrew’s Church // Kyiv // Ukraine
St Andrew’s Church // Kyiv // Ukraine
CHIATURA AND THE STALIN ‘S LAST CABLE CARS // GEORGIA
Chiatura (Georgian: ჭიათურა) is a small city in Western Georgia located on the banks of the Qvirila River, 180 kilometers away from the capital, Tbilisi. The city has a rich…
The bielorussian Rhombicuboctahedron // Minsk // Belarus
The bielorussian Rhombicuboctahedron
National Library of Belarus // Minsk
Национальная библиотека Беларуси
Statue of Cheka founder Felix Dzerzhinsky // Minsk // Belarus
Statue of Cheka ( aka All-Russian Emergency Commission for Combating Counter-Revolution and Sabotage later known as KGB ) founder Felix Dzerzhinsky // Minsk // Belarus
No scholars are sure how many were killed by the Cheka during the soviet ‘Red Terror’ ( 1918–1922 ) and the figures vary widely from 50 000 to a quarter million people.
New microdisctict in the Outskirts of Minsk // Belarus
New microdisctict in the Outskirts of Minsk // Belarus
Tbilisi ‘s Juliette // Georgia
Tbilisi ‘s Juliette // Georgia
Pique-nique au bord du chemin / Пикник на обочине // Ukraine
Pripyat: Today silence in what was before the Chernobyl’s nuclear disaster a model city of the communist bloc. Cinemas, clinics, schools, housing and all the facilities that a city of more than 50,000 people could count in the 80s are now left to decay under the action of time and weather. However it is enough for the visitors to listen to the click click of his Geiger counter to realize that behind these monolithic gutted buildings , and the strange tranquility of this city that nature slowly engulfs, are always at work colossal forces .
A silent war is at play here, a war that we have probably already lost.
Located barely to 3 km away from the number 4 reactor of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, Pripyat is now the capital of a territory dumb to changing laws, an area such as prophesied by the Strugatsky brothers. The hazards of wind and precipitation have left anarchic radioactivity spots, drawing the contours of a strange world where normality rubs death.
Monkeying around In Beijing // China
Monkeying around In Beijing // China
Pyongyang ‘s subway – Yonggwang Station // North Korea
Pyongyang ‘s subway – Yonggwang Station // North Korea – La Dent de L’Oeil – Contemporary photography by Hélène Veilleux – #drprk #northkorea #asia #urbex #subway