Documentary Photography – Young & Free In Leningrad, Russia
Two girls kissing each other in the Radio Babi club. In the big cities young people live their sexuality in an uninhibited way.
Photographer Alfredo Chiarappa is the Edge of Humanity Magazine contributor of this documentary photography. These images are from his project “Crossing Leningrad“. To see Alfredo’s gallery of projects click on any image.
After the end of the Communist dictatorship the young Russian culture strongly felt the influences of their contemporary American and European neighbors, so much that twenty years later even the myth of being a city of sex tourism has been lost.
A group of young people dancing in the club called Zoccolo.
A guy photographed in the toilette of the Fidel, one of the clubs of the Dumskaya Ulitsa.
A teenager at the Datscha (a club in the Dumskaya Ulitsa).
Flyers and stickers left in a bar toilette.
Anna smoking a cigarette. In Leningrad, clubs are still smokers friendly.
St. Petersburg’s suburbs.
The city suburbs are composed of tall blocks of hundreds of apartments, where, since the end of the Communism, people from different social classes live.
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By Alfredo Chiarappa