Siege Leningrad and modern St. Petersburg in 27 heartfelt photographs

Paradise in the sea: the life of sea gypsies - bajao in a heartfelt series of photographs

Nomads, fishermen and skilled pearl divers … are the amazing Bajao people or "sea gypsies" from the island of Borneo. They are born among the serene waves and their home is the sea. In a serene series of photographs, the author shows how these people live, who have nothing to do with our way of life

An exhibition of veteran artists who survived the siege of Leningrad has opened in St. Petersburg

On January 15, the St. Petersburg Union of Artists opened an exhibition. The peculiarity of this exhibition is that it presents the works of those masters who survived the siege of Leningrad. Visitors to the exhibition are presented with works of arts and crafts, graphic works, sculpture and painting

An 80-year-old siege woman gets behind the wheel of a van every day to help the disabled in St. Petersburg

The Dobrota charitable foundation has been operating in St. Petersburg for 10 years already. The only participant in this fund is Galina Ivanovna Yakovleva. A woman drives a white van, loads them with food and groceries herself, delivering them from suppliers to disabled people on the outskirts of the city. And she does all this work regularly, despite the fact that Galina Ivanovna herself is 80 years old and that she herself is disabled

Military Leningrad and modern Petersburg in one photo. Photographs by Sergey Larenkov

We are all used to seeing photographs of architectural objects - whether modern or historical - but very rarely do we see them so distinctly combined, bringing back a reality containing dusty and scratched black and white images from the past. These images captured the critical moments of one of the most incredible cities not only in Russia, but in the whole world - St. Petersburg. And their contrast with today's calm city life is impressive and terrifying

A heartfelt series of photographs in which the dark beauty of feelings, pain and experiences is closely intertwined

The pictures taken by Natalia Drepina resemble the world of ugliness and beauty, where thin hands, pale faces, withered flowers, twisted branches, mirrors and dirt become an integral part of the plot. And it is not at all surprising that these works, executed in dark-cold colors, are similar to visual poetry, in which the main characters tell the viewer sad and at the same time unusually beautiful stories, fanned by a gloomy atmosphere of melancholy and romanticism