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MOSCOW in fragments and faces

No generalization, just my very own impressions.

Behind the looking-glass	Arbat	Fence	Fortochka
Memories	Stroll	Metro	Train
polytechnical musium	Get ready for winter	beggary	entrance
Coca-Cola	Mail box	Waiting for a bus	Since you like bikes
Officers	painted smile	Poetry light	Slow day
passage	Domes	Art museum	wind band
Arrival	observer	Tourists	caryatids
Babushka	Three Little Pigs never came home...	Watching	Lubyanka
Birchen nostalgia	City girls	Cafe	Food
Roofs	Onion	News	Almost tourist shot
lanterns	Self-portrait in Downtown	patrol	Chapel
Out of town	hand in hand	Bench	Asleep
Pigtails	The wall	Poster	Evening on Moscow-River
Rain	Cycling to the light	Up and sidewards	Chain

Long Bach Nguyen		26-May-2010 02:14
lovely gallery and wonderful collection of images

an nguyen		29-Mar-2010 12:12
Amazing work, Galina. I do love them all.

Vladimir Babkin		05-Feb-2010 05:10
impressive gallery. full of amazing pictures. BraVo!!!

Guest		08-Sep-2009 14:50
Well done, Galina! It makes you want to go and see by yourself.

Egernhaven		03-Jul-2009 06:03
Super Beautiful Galleri.

Thomas		01-Mar-2008 19:42
very unique view of moscow! well done, thomas

Terri Steele		10-Jun-2007 13:30
You have an excellent eye! I love the images that you create here. Each photo tells a story. Brilliant work!

Giancarlo Guzzardi		01-Jun-2007 11:24
you succeed to tell in simple way the thousand faces of the life

Maxim Popykin		31-May-2007 08:48
spectacular street collection. Moscow as is! Big vote

Guest		29-Aug-2006 14:48
Galina, I like your realistic view of Moscow. I consider it my home city and I really enjoyed seeing your representation of it. I call this great street photography that is much harder to do than simple sight-seeing photography. This gallery deserves all the votes that it can get.

G.Pietro Munaretto		22-Aug-2006 11:50
excellent gallery

Guest		05-Jul-2006 18:57
Galina, this is a wonderful and very personal insight into life in this buzzing metropolis Moscow. I've been there a couple of times for business purposes but unfortunately have not yet had the opportunity to really discover true "Moscow Life". Thanks for bringing it a bit closer to me by your gallery. Cheers, Sharif

arminb		27-Jun-2006 10:16
wonderful impressions!

Audrey Reid		26-Jun-2006 13:44
Interesting tour through this gallery of fragments of memories of a city through your eyes. Goes to show its not always the famous city icons that make visits special.

shatterbug		26-Jun-2006 02:40
Thanks for the tour! This is an excellent gallery depicted with your usual great vision, and has my vote!

abc		18-Jun-2006 16:19
Hi Galina! Another vote for you today! A great eye for moments and faces. What I like as well is that your pictures look very naturally, seems like you didn't manipulate with any programme to make them look so beautifully. Regards, Karolina

Guenter Eh		10-May-2006 20:20
No doubt - this evening I found a treasure with this amazing gallery Galina! So please give me some time to discover all these jewels of daily life of Moscow. And I love the to see the lot of people studies here! Big applause and definitely my vote!

Guest		20-Feb-2006 10:23
Dear Galina I have just had a look through your galleries and I find your art and vision quite moving. It is a shame that some people cannot appreciate photography for what it is - art. If a picture presents somehting that is not always "pleasing" to the eye it doesn't automatically represent a political statement. Fortuantely you appear to be wise and level headed so we will see more of your beautiful photographs of your beautiful city. Thank you.

Guest		10-Jan-2006 20:36
Very well, I think people are looking for the true side of a town.. These photoes show this side very well. David (Italy)

Guest		09-Jan-2006 18:07
belle foto

Roger Gelfand		02-Nov-2005 08:01
A wonderful insight to the people and the city.....very nice collection...great to see your work again. Best regards, Roger

Olaf Herrig		14-Oct-2005 12:42
A great and very interesting gallery!

...duncan		09-Oct-2005 23:42
Galina, I think you captured the life of a city. Most people document buildings and objects but forget the people who live in the city when they do travel photography. It isn’t the buildings that make the city but the people as well. They live in conjunction with one another. How absolutely pathetic it would be to go to NY and forget the New Yorkers. You did not forget the soul of the city which is its people. Buildings fall and get torn down, or destroyed. I saw that a few years ago, we all did, but many of the people still remain and are there living. Home is where you are and life is where we live it. You captured life. Congratulations on a wonderful gallery.

Jola Dziubinska		28-Sep-2005 10:14
Galina, I have found this gallery very impresive, very interesting and - very touching. You could see things other poeple turn their heads away from. Every country, every city has the tourist side and the real life side. It's a big gift to find and capture the second one. And you did it perfectly! Thanks for sharing and for not beeing "persuaded". I wish I could give more votes than just one.

Anna Pagnacco		27-Sep-2005 15:53
Excellent gallery Galina...moments and faces captured wonderfully! Anna

Chris Sofopoulos		08-Aug-2005 07:12
Beautiful images through your eyes Galina. I like what I see here. Count a vote from me for this impressive and so interesting work.

Wendy O		07-Aug-2005 01:22
Galina, you have captured heart and soul of this city, I don't understand how this gallery could be misinterpreted as a negative comment on Moscow. The faces, the details and bits of daily life draw me in. You are a very talented photographer, anyone can take postcard pictures, this gallery has warmth. Vote.

Leslie Cohelan		01-Aug-2005 05:15
Galina, a gallery to be proud of no matter what your heritage or what continent you are born on...each image represents what the photographer sees...and each image is well represented...

SimplePhotography		01-Aug-2005 01:45
Despite being an uneducated member of the western public and an endless lover of street photography, I still adore this gallery a lot. How fortunate that you, a gifted photographer, did not get tricked into shooting the obvious frames that you can find in any book or travel guide about Moscow. Instead, you show us everyday life and less known subjects in Moscow, which will in time be a testimony of todays life, habits and city scapes for future generations, when the city has changed. Thanks a lot for sharing your views on your city with us. I will be a frequent visitor. http://users.skynet.be/simplephotography

Guest		29-Jul-2005 07:57
This is a nice gallery. I think there is no basis for being polemic against it since - as you say - your work is not intended to be a sort of travel photography. You are not showing us how Moscow is. But rather some of your personal impressions. Probably, many of your pictures could have being taken somewhere else than in Moscow. It happened to you there. And this is what you have seen. Otherwise, people should not take pictures of taxis in Rome, for example, since taxis do not necessarily caracterize that city. Hilarious.... I vote. alem

alexeig		28-Jul-2005 20:15
Galina: I like your take on Moscow very much and especially its human dimension. You have an eye for small but significant things too and your architectural shots do not follow a postcard pattern which is very good. Eldar: you should grow over "national pride" and "uneducated Western public" stuff. I love Moscow and it is a great and unique city, but so are Vienna, Paris, Berlin, Istanbul, New York, Rome, London, Jerusalem ... Can you imagine the natives of these cities writing about "uneducated foreign public" which "to their happy satisfaction" consider these natives barbarians? Ridiculous, right?

Rob Oele		27-Jul-2005 15:40
Hallo Galina, The first impression is often (though not always) the best. When I first glanced these pictures it gave me a good feeling and after reading the comments and discussions that feeling didn't change at all. My first (positive) impression of this gallery is that it is about people and the mood around them; it is the universal impression of these people which I like. Greetings, Rob

Guest		26-Jul-2005 21:50
Excellent gallery Galina, your work continues to just keep getting better.

Glendower		26-Jul-2005 03:52
I am sad to read the criticisms below of this gallery that I love so much. I have left comments on several of the photos so perhaps I was assumed to be one of the uneducated Westerners for which this gallery is said to have appeal because it plays into unsympathetic stereotypes. Actually, I would like the critics to know that had the unique privilege of visting Moscow twice during the last six years on academic business. I walked all over the city core, took the Metro by myself in the city and the suburbs, and visited all the many wonderful and internationally unique artistic, religious, and architectural treasures that I could during my free hours. As a result of my excursions, I have many photos of Moscow's buildings but nothing that comes anywhere close to capturing its unique soul. If I was a talented photographer like Ms. Stepanova (which unfortunately I am not) these are the kinds of warmly sympathetic and human portraits of this fabulous city and its inhabitants that I would want to be able to capture. This gallery reflects her very real talent and art and I can find nothing in it that diminishes in any way my affectionate memories of visiting Moscow and Russia. On the contrary, they help me to remember the human warmth and heartbeat of the city - why I liked being there and why I would like to be able to return some day.

Marie-H�l�ne Raletz		25-Jul-2005 05:56
Dorogaja Galina, My admiration for your level-headed replies to borderline comments! I enjoy your vision of Moscow, one can feel life throbs in your images. Marie

Boris		25-Jul-2005 04:38
Mr. Kadymov: You need to lighten up. I have been to Russia three times, and Moscow each time, the first when Gobachov was still a young pup on the Politburo. There is nothing wrong with this gallery. It shows the non-tourist side of Moscow, and Galina has captured the people and feelings of the people quite well, in my opinion. Every city has its beauty, and often it doesn't always reside in the grands works of architecture which abounds in Moscow. Were I an "uneducated Westerner" I would think what a nice city to visit; what nice people they seem to be; I think I'll visit Moscow. Each country has its rough faces, but this gallery contains none of them. Moscow is a beautiful city, and it is getting more attractive with each passing year.

Guest		24-Jul-2005 22:33
Dear Galina, I am delighted to see this gallery growing. These photos are warm and loving. I am also pleased to see the emotional discussion that your gallery has inspired. I view it as a true recognition of your artistry. Best, Sophia Gilmson St. Petersburg (Leningrad) native.

Guest		24-Jul-2005 11:27
I consider myself as a member of the "uneducated Western public" as designated by Mr. Kadymov and I can't find anything whatsoever in this gallery that is offending or disrespectful to Moscow or the beautiful and diverse Russian culture it depicts. This is a beautiful, nuanced gallery Galina!

Galina Stepanova		24-Jul-2005 03:50
Dear Eldar, I deeply appreciate your emotional comment, no matter I agree or disagree with it. I should repeat once again: this gallery represents my own impressions and does not have a goal to show places, everyone can find in professional photo albums about Moscow. I also should mention, that I participate Pbase as photographic, not political forum. And based on this, if my photography does not leave you independent, I consider it as success. My best wishes, Galina

Eldar Kadymov		24-Jul-2005 02:04
I was just scrolling through popular galleries and hit this one. Well, I should probably agree with "guest", she/he was actually quite gentle on remarks, yet I have to join this "protest". I think you gallery is simply pathetic , Galina. Don't forget, Moscow is our national pride and the best representation of the Russian culture for dikich inostrantzev. I live on West and should tell you that you just gave them another chance to spit on our Russian heritage and culture and cofirm again ( to their happy satisfaction ) that all Russians are barbarians even in capital, this is what your gallery looks like. Regardless whether it's for tourists or not, as you mentioned, Moscow offers Arbat, Chistye Prudy, Stalinskie mnogoetazki, Tretiakovku, Ismailovo, Posadny Riad, Sadovoe Kol'tzo, Kreml' and surrondings, best in the world theatres and metro, absolutely unique VDNXA, Novodevithchiy monastery, Granovituy Palatu, Sokolniki, mix between mafia and damn poors, Sadovoe Kol'tso, endless parks, Sergiev Posad, oh I can go on and on endlessly... No another city on the world is so beautiful and diverse except for Paris, so what we see here ? Tchush' sobatchia a ne galereya... I don't think you know your city, too bad that people think that it's real representation of Moscow. I respect that you have yoru own vision, it's just too bad that this happened to be favored by uneducated Westren public who's got no idea what Russia is all about !

type		23-Jul-2005 17:34
Excellent travelogue. Some perfect captures.

Galina Stepanova		22-Jul-2005 12:15
To Guest: this gallery is not an attempt to give generalized presentation of Moscow as 'glorious city', I leave it for professionals and tourists, this is to share my impressions and my sensations of city I love and know well. I would be happy do discuss it, pity my Guest did not introduce himself.

Guest		22-Jul-2005 04:22
This is not Moscow at all, as it's glorious city, these pics could be taken in any of Russian small towns. Your gallery pretens to be original, but, in my opinion, it's just complete wash and misrepresentation of what Moscow is all about... For shame...

ac		21-Jul-2005 16:17
On the third page of the most popular ! Congratulations.

Barri Olson		21-Jul-2005 05:22
I really like this gallery, the variety, the portraits, the moods and insights it has. Very well done.

Chris Sofopoulos		20-Jul-2005 14:00
A nice presentation of Moscow. Very human and friendly with beautiful faces and architectural details. Bravo.

Igor Polotsky		19-Jul-2005 15:51
Ìíå î÷åíü ïîíðàâèëèñü ôîòîãðàôèè î Ìîñêâå. Cheers, Igor

Marisa Livet		19-Jul-2005 13:20
How could I have missed this gallery? Oh, I'm sorry I didn't find it before and I'm, at the same time, happy for the pleasure I have in discovering it now! It's really the spirit of Moscow, there is all what is important, all what we have to know. It's a map of the soul, rather than of places. Vote and standing ovation ! The best gallery on Moscow I have seen! Marisa

judi2		18-Jul-2005 11:42
What an inspirational gallery....each one so well captured and with "heart"... You have a gift....

Johnette Cappadona		12-Jul-2005 15:36
Galina: How beautiful your photographs are! The artist in you shines. I'm so proud of you and grateful for your generosity. Johnette

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jlm		11-Jul-2005 21:11
An unexpected view of Moscow... More !!

Guest		11-Jul-2005 11:10
I have watched this gallery grow day by day and just when I think it is as good as it can get, it gets better. A job very well done.

Marie-H�l�ne Raletz		11-Jul-2005 04:26
Your Moscow gallery is really up to my expectations.... Marie

Glendower		11-Jul-2005 03:57
Bravo! So many truly excellent images here already. Encore! Encore! Don't stop.

Guest		10-Jul-2005 03:53
So good to have you back! Hope you had a wonderful time. I was waiting for a new gallery, and here it is, both truthful and imaginative. Looking forward to more!.. Best, Sophia

Guest		07-Jul-2005 10:41
Glad you are willing to share this impressions Galina! I am realy looking forward to the completion of this gallery. Something tells me this is going to be interesting, the start is very promising that's for sure. I love these cultural encounters ;-)

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