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Phil Douglis | all galleries >> Galleries >> Gallery Seventy Three: Expressive treasures from the underpass. > Rainy day, Kiev, Ukraine, 2009
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16-OCT-2009

Rainy day, Kiev, Ukraine, 2009

The underpass provides temporary shelter when it is raining, but that shelter ends where the steps begin. I photographed a number of people silhouetted against the open end of this underpass bearing umbrellas, and this image was the most expressive of them, primarily because my slow 1/15th of a second shutter speed has blurred the subject and created a sense of urgency. The walls lining the stairs of the underpass bear the pasted remnants of handbills that have been partially scraped away. The resulting colors, particularly in the rain, turn the wall into a random work of abstract art.

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Phil Douglis25-Nov-2009 19:10
I agree -- the blur suggests urgency, a human value that is no short supply in Kiev and other urban centers. As for those handbills, I loved the layering effects they made, and the abstracted smears left when they were finally torn away from the walls.
Tim May25-Nov-2009 18:32
The blur to me seems to symbolize the nature of urban living - rush and move. I also wonder whose job it is to remove the handbills - unlike in Bucharest where no one seems to remove them.
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