Breath of the past: 17 photographs showing fragments of old interiors

A traveler takes photographs of the interiors of famous temples in the world, similar to a kaleidoscope

The most famous temples in the world, as a rule, amaze with their architecture, and their photos can be viewed endlessly. However, even the most perfect things, someone will undertake to improve. For example, there was a daredevil photographer who invited the society to look at the masterpieces of architecture from a different angle. Richard Silver is a photographer with a unique style of capturing famous buildings: he shoots temples from the inside in such a way that something incredible looks like kaleidoscope patterns

"Kuban Cossacks": Why Secretary General Khrushchev for 12 years banned the showing of the picture

The musical comedy "Kuban Cossacks" was released on movie screens in 1950. This unpretentious film about a happy and well-fed life in Soviet collective farms fell in love with the viewer. He was even awarded a state prize. However, after 6 years, the film was put on the shelf for many years. Why "Kuban Cossacks" did not like Khrushchev - further in the review

10 monochrome photographs of African lions in the wild showing brutal superheroes

The photographs by French photographer Laurent Bajo are easy to recognize - they are stylish black and white shots in which wild animals appear as real superheroes and kings. It is the grandeur and grace that distinguishes the heroes of Baho's pictures, although he himself admits that he is fascinated by absolutely everything that concerns wildlife - whether it is danger or fragility in the gaze of lions, or the desire of animals to live their usual routine life

Distorted Grimaces: A series of photographs showing the faces of people in discomfort

Each of us, at least once in our life, experienced discomfort - be it physical, moral or psychological. But hardly anyone thought about how he looks from the outside at such moments. A series of photographs in which distorted grimaces are captured, more like images of crooked mirrors, are a kind of visual interpretation of an uncomfortable state that is so difficult to describe in words. After all, any slightest influence of external or internal factors on a person prevents him from living in

Rare photographs of 1860-1870 showing Chinese women of different classes

The 19th century in China was a period of urbanization, industrialization, protectionism and the flourishing of colonialism, and also a time of unprecedented achievements in art and culture. But against the background of all social changes, a woman has always remained a woman - sweet and charming. In our review, there are rare photographs of Chinese women. All pictures were taken at the end of the 19th century