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.
During the winter in Leningrad the night falls in love with time that seems never to want to end. The white mist all around suggests all lovers never to leave each other, and keep company to the city youth.
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.
Today in the city of the Great Peter you can breathe European air, and it can be compared to generation dream cities like Berlin and London. Crossing Leningrad is about post-perestroika youth who want to go beyond the time they couldn’t see certain films, couldn’t listen western music, radio stations and even wearing jeans.
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By Alfredo Chiarappa