Alexey Titarenko from the series 'City of shadows'
I can’t remember how I landed on Alexey Titarenko website, wonders of the internet. Browsing through the beautiful and sad pictures I wondered how I had never heard of this Russian photographer, his work is reminiscent of the early days of photography, ghosts moving through the streets of Paris in the 19th century. But Titarenko’s images are mainly set in St. Petersburg in the late 20th century, when History was taking a very different turn. For anyone interested Arte tv produced a documentary on Titarenko, a window on the meaning and practice behind these ghosts.
