Eastern Europe

[Guest]

Thoroughly enjoying these images. Not to be a downer but when you look at these images the citizens of these countries have been denied a modern lifestyle as a result of the Soviet era. The evidence is everywhere in these images. Infrastructure and everyday comforts have been sacrificed for weaponry.
My brother traveled through Russia from East to west, his images were incredible, abject poverty until you arrived in St Petersburg and Moscow, he said they were dressed up for the tourists while the rest of the country was worse than third world, houses did not even have plumbing. He had images of villagers lining up to get water at the train station, while the train was watering up as well.
Anyhow to those of you posting these images thank you very much for the education.

 

[Out to Lunch]

WWII memorial dating back to the Soviet era. Chisinau, Moldova. Remembrance Soviet style. August 2006.

 

[Joao]

Bratislava

Bratislava

Three from Slovakia (Bratislava) in 2016.
Kiev 35-A, Fujicolor 200







Regards
Joao

 

[raydm6]

Beautiful!

 

[p.giannakis]

Great picture Joao !

 

[p.giannakis]

During a suddent May pour down in 2013.
Poland - May 2013
Kodak Tmax400 in Rodinal

 

[Out to Lunch]

Women selling flowers and fruit in the street. Survival hustling. Chisinau, Moldova.

 

[Joao]

Thank you !
Joao

 

[Out to Lunch]

Bucharest, July 2011. The Romanians have a good sense of humor.

 

[besk]

You see that in Belarus also.

Women selling flowers and fruit in the street. Survival hustling. Chisinau, Moldova.

 

[Erik van Straten]

During a suddent May pour down in 2013.
Poland - May 2013
Kodak Tmax400 in Rodinal

Fantastic shot, Pan!


Erik.

 

[Out to Lunch]

Fairground Chisinau, Moldova. October 2006.

 

[p.giannakis]

Poland 2013
Kodak TMax400 in HC110

 

[David Hughes]

Thoroughly enjoying these images. Not to be a downer but when you look at these images the citizens of these countries have been denied a modern lifestyle as a result of the Soviet era. The evidence is everywhere in these images. Infrastructure and everyday comforts have been sacrificed for weaponry.
My brother traveled through Russia from East to west, his images were incredible, abject poverty until you arrived in St Petersburg and Moscow, he said they were dressed up for the tourists while the rest of the country was worse than third world, houses did not even have plumbing. He had images of villagers lining up to get water at the train station, while the train was watering up as well.
Anyhow to those of you posting these images thank you very much for the education.

OTOH, not many of them are grotesquely overweight and medical treatment was free...

Regards, David

 

[valdas]

OTOH, not many of them are grotesquely overweight and medical treatment was free...


Regards, David

Free medical treatment meant bribes to doctors to receive decent service. So, it was not free. Life expectancy in USSR was much shorter than in Western Europe. I don’t understant how people still try to find “bright sides” of those totalitarian systems.

 

[David Hughes]

Free medical treatment meant bribes to doctors to receive decent service. So, it was not free. Life expectancy in USSR was much shorter than in Western Europe. I don’t understant how people still try to find “bright sides” of those totalitarian systems.

Not understanding nor tolerating other points of view is totalitarian, surely?

I try not to see things in terms of blackest black and whitest white but that is probably because I see lots of greys in between. Not unusual on a photographic forum...

Regards, David

 

[davidnewtonguitars]

How is voicing an opposing point of view totalitarian?
Isn't free speech antithetical to totalitarian?
Don't we understand by now that the Communism of the USSR was a blight on Eastern Europe, or should we give it another chance?

 

[juraj_v]

Some of my shots, they are from Slovakia and Hungary. I live near the border and speak both languages fluently. I love to keep things minimal and don't care too much about stories or emotions, I'm more interested in relationships of structures and surfaces, the tension between them...and as you can see I love to shoot vertically Taken with Olympus OM-1/Canon P/Nikon FE with variety of film stocks.

 

[Joao]

Some of my shots, they are from Slovakia and Hungary. I live near the border and speak both languages fluently. I love to keep things minimal and don't care too much about stories or emotions, I'm more interested in relationships of structures and surfaces, the tension between them...and as you can see I love to shoot vertically Taken with Olympus OM-1/Canon P/Nikon FE with variety of film stocks.

Very nice set.
Please show us some more.

Joao

 

[p.giannakis]

Commuter - Poland 2011
Kodak Tri-X in Rodinal
Canon EOS 300V