Check the Instagram account documenting the lives of the Moscow suburbs, a project of the photographer Konstantin Vikhrov.
The air is grainy (зернистый (фотографии)) with mist and suspense. Passersby with smudged faces move against a backdrop (задний фон) of endless tower blocks and the dull sheen (cияние) of wet asphalt, lit by the neon glare of signs advertising bargain stores.These are the surroundings that we don’t notice because we are too busy with our lives, or that we choose not to notice because we want to be somewhere else. We see all the objects in these photographs so often that we’ve lost the ability to appreciate them, and turning them into art moves our gaze (взгляд) back onto them.
