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Andrew B. Barkhatov @abbsound.bsky.social · 23h

"They Still See (The Smena Lineage)"
(Fujifilm Fuji Eterna + D76)
15/09/2018

#filmphotography #blackandwhite #monochrome #bnw #believeinfilm #sovietcamera #cameragear #oldschool #vintage #vintagecamera #35mm #filmcamera #film #ClassicMono #bwfilm #noiretblanc #FujiEterna #Fujifilm

📸 "Family Portrait. From the Past into the Frame"
A group portrait of four generations of Soviet scale-focus cameras “Smena”: the first, the third, the sixth, and the especially rare ninth. These models are more than devices — they are legends of mass photography, which made image-making accessible to everyone. Focusing was always “by eye” — using the distance scale on the lens, where the photographer chose: one meter, three, five, or infinity. This was the philosophy of the Smena: trust your own vision. And though their bodies belong to the last century, they are still alive. They still shoot. And the images they’ve captured will be shown soon.

Technical Credits:
Location: Moscow, somewhere between nostalgia and bark chips
Camera: Canon EOS 5
Lens: Canon Zoom Lens EF 70–210 mm
Film: Fujifilm Fuji Eterna (exact type unknown, heavily expired
Exposure: Rated at ISO 100
Development: Kodak D-76, 7 minutes
Scanner: Fujifilm Frontier SP-3000 (no corrections applied)
Date: 15 September 2018
Notes: Storage conditions of the film unknown. The results are experimental, balancing chance and chemistry.

📷 «Семейный портрет. Они всё ещё видят»
Групповой портрет четырёх поколений советских шкальных камер «Смена»: первой, третьей, шестой и особенно редкой девятой. Эти камеры — легенда массовой фотографии, сделавшая снимок доступным каждому. Их философия — фокусировка «на глазок», доверие к собственному взгляду. И хотя их корпуса принадлежат прошлому веку, они всё ещё живы. Всё ещё снимают. Кадры, сделанные ими, мы покажем позже.

📋 Технические титры

Camera: Canon EOS 5
Lens: Canon Zoom Lens EF 70–210 mm
Film: Fujifilm Fuji Eterna ??? expired
Scanner: Fujifilm Frontier SP-3000
Exposure: 100 ISO
Development: Kodak D-76, 7 minutes
Date: 15/09/2018
Location: Moscow, Москва, где-то между ностальгией и древесной щепой

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Andrew B. Barkhatov @abbsound.bsky.social · 3d

Raw Moments of City Life (Fujifilm Fuji Eterna + D76)
15/09/2018

#filmphotography #blackandwhite #monochrome #streetbw #blackandwhitephoto #documentary #phojournalism #bnw #face #girls #female #autumn #bwfilm #believeinfilm #bw #noiretblanc #ClassicMono #streetphoto #FujiEterna #everybodystreet

🍦 For Three
Sun — for three. Ice cream — for three. Selfie — for three. In Russia, many things are done “for three” — not about numbers, but about closeness.

Technical Credits:
Location: Moscow, Muzeon Arts Park, Krymskaya Embankment
Camera: Canon EOS 5
Lens: Canon Zoom Lens EF 70–210 mm
Film: Fujifilm Fuji Eterna (exact type unknown, heavily expired
Exposure: Rated at ISO 100
Development: Kodak D-76, 7 minutes
Scanner: Fujifilm Frontier SP-3000 (no corrections applied)
Date: 15 September 2018
Notes: Storage conditions of the film unknown. The results are experimental, balancing chance and chemistry.

☀️Too Much Sun for One Frame
The final frame, the final flare. Sun floods half the film, as if refusing to leave. The girl behind the stand — not just a vendor, but part of the day’s rhythm. Ice cream, soda, September.

Technical Credits:
Location: Moscow, Muzeon Arts Park, Krymskaya Embankment
Camera: Canon EOS 5
Lens: Canon Zoom Lens EF 70–210 mm
Film: Fujifilm Fuji Eterna (exact type unknown, heavily expired
Exposure: Rated at ISO 100
Development: Kodak D-76, 7 minutes
Scanner: Fujifilm Frontier SP-3000 (no corrections applied)
Date: 15 September 2018
Notes: Storage conditions of the film unknown. The results are experimental, balancing chance and chemistry.

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Andrew B. Barkhatov @abbsound.bsky.social · 4d

"September Inside the City's Flesh" (Fujifilm Fuji Eterna + D76)
15/09/2018

#filmphotography #blackandwhite #monochrome #streetbw #blackandwhitephoto #documentary #phojournalism #bnw #ClassicMono #streetphoto #everybodystreet #filmisnotdead #believeinfilm #noiretblanc #bwfilm #FujiEterna #Fujifilm

💦 Summer Within
September may be called autumn, but warmth still pulses through it. Especially when you’re young, especially when you’re inside the fountain. Water rises, the body responds — and the city becomes play.

Technical Credits:
Location: Moscow, Muzeon Arts Park, Krymskaya Embankment
Camera: Canon EOS 5
Lens: Canon Zoom Lens EF 70–210 mm
Film: Fujifilm Fuji Eterna (exact type unknown, heavily expired
Exposure: Rated at ISO 100
Development: Kodak D-76, 7 minutes
Scanner: Fujifilm Frontier SP-3000 (no corrections applied)
Date: 15 September 2018
Notes: Storage conditions of the film unknown. The results are experimental, balancing chance and chemistry.

📷 Kindred Eye
He’s searching too. Capturing too. He couldn’t walk past either. We don’t know what he’s shooting — but we know why. In this moment, he’s a reflection.

Technical Credits:
Location: Moscow, Muzeon Arts Park, Krymskaya Embankment
Camera: Canon EOS 5
Lens: Canon Zoom Lens EF 70–210 mm
Film: Fujifilm Fuji Eterna (exact type unknown, heavily expired
Exposure: Rated at ISO 100
Development: Kodak D-76, 7 minutes
Scanner: Fujifilm Frontier SP-3000 (no corrections applied)
Date: 15 September 2018
Notes: Storage conditions of the film unknown. The results are experimental, balancing chance and chemistry.

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Andrew B. Barkhatov @abbsound.bsky.social · 7d

Urban Pauses (Fujifilm Fuji Eterna + D76)
15/09/2018

#filmphotography #blackandwhite #monochrome #bwfilm #autumn #woman #face #portrait #streetportrait #female #streetphotography #FujiEterna #noiretblanc #documentary #believeinfilm #bnw #filmphoto

🥋 Form in the Flow
He’s not posing — he’s moving. Tai Chi? Wushu? Or simply a way to be oneself in a city that never stops rushing. Each gesture — a line written by the body.
Technical Credits:
Location: Moscow, Muzeon Arts Park, Krymskaya Embankment
Camera: Canon EOS 5
Lens: Canon Zoom Lens EF 70–210 mm
Film: Fujifilm Fuji Eterna (exact type unknown, heavily expired
Exposure: Rated at ISO 100
Development: Kodak D-76, 7 minutes
Scanner: Fujifilm Frontier SP-3000 (no corrections applied)
Date: 15 September 2018
Notes: Storage conditions of the film unknown. The results are experimental, balancing chance and chemistry.

🌞 Light Within
She’s not looking — she’s feeling. September sun touches her face, and everything else fades. Just being, just breathing, just absorbing the light.
Technical Credits:
Location: Moscow, Muzeon Arts Park, Krymskaya Embankment
Camera: Canon EOS 5
Lens: Canon Zoom Lens EF 70–210 mm
Film: Fujifilm Fuji Eterna (exact type unknown, heavily expired
Exposure: Rated at ISO 100
Development: Kodak D-76, 7 minutes
Scanner: Fujifilm Frontier SP-3000 (no corrections applied)
Date: 15 September 2018
Notes: Storage conditions of the film unknown. The results are experimental, balancing chance and chemistry.

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Andrew B. Barkhatov @abbsound.bsky.social · 8d

🛶 The Sentinel and the Flow
For a moment — no faces, no motion. Just the river, the monument, the factory. The confluence where the Moskva River meets the canal, and the city becomes a panorama. Peter gazes outward, and we gaze at him.

#filmphotography #blackandwhite #landscape #cityscape #35mm #bw

🛶 The Sentinel and the Flow (Fujifilm Fuji Eterna + D76)
For a moment — no faces, no motion. Just the river, the monument, the factory. The confluence where the Moskva River meets the canal, and the city becomes a panorama. Peter gazes outward, and we gaze at him.
📋 Technical Credits
Location: Moscow, Confluence of Moskva River and Vodootvodny Canal, Peter the Great Monument
Camera: Canon EOS 5 Lens: Canon Zoom Lens EF 70–210 mm
Film: Fujifilm Fuji Eterna (exact type unknown, heavily expired
Scanner: Fujifilm Frontier SP-3000 (no corrections applied)
Exposure: 100 ISO
Development: Kodak D-76, 7 minutes
Date: 15/09/2018

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Andrew B. Barkhatov @abbsound.bsky.social · 9d

🌞 Shared Stillness (Fujifilm Fuji Eterna + D76)
One lies down, eyes closed. The other leans in, hair brushing the face. September sun warms the bench, and everything slows. A stillness that can be shared.

#filmphotography #blackandwhite #documentary #streetphoto #believeinfilm #people #film #35mm

🌞 Shared Stillness
15/09/2018

One lies down, eyes closed. The other leans in, hair brushing the face. September sun warms the bench, and everything slows. A stillness that can be shared.
📋 Technical Credits
Location: Moscow, Pushkinskaya Embankment, Pier
Camera: Canon EOS 5 Lens: Canon Zoom Lens EF 70–210 mm
Film: Fujifilm Fuji Eterna (exact type unknown, heavily expired
Scanner: Fujifilm Frontier SP-3000 (no corrections applied)
Exposure: 100 ISO
Development: Kodak D-76, 7 minutes
Date: 15/09/2018

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Andrew B. Barkhatov @abbsound.bsky.social · 11d

🌍 The Thread (Fujifilm Fuji Eterna + D76)
He leans on concrete, but wears a cloth woven with rhythms from other shores. The pier becomes a point of intersection — city, body, texture.
#filmphotography #blackandwhite #documentary #streetphoto #believeinfilm #bnw #FujiEterna #people #film #35mm #bw

🌍 The Thread
He leans on concrete, but wears a cloth woven with rhythms from other shores. The pier becomes a point of intersection — city, body, texture.
📋 Technical Credits
Location: Moscow, Pushkinskaya Embankment, Pier
Camera: Canon EOS 5 Lens: Canon Zoom Lens EF 70–210 mm
Film: Fujifilm Fuji Eterna (exact type unknown, heavily expired
Scanner: Fujifilm Frontier SP-3000 (no corrections applied)
Exposure: 100 ISO
Development: Kodak D-76, 7 minutes
Date: 15/09/2018

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Andrew B. Barkhatov @abbsound.bsky.social · 12d

🎓 The Threshold Moment (Fujifilm Fuji Eterna + D76)
15/09/2018

#filmphotography #blackandwhite #monochrome #streetbw #blackandwhitephoto #documentary #phojournalism #bnw #ClassicMono #streetphoto #everybodystreet #filmisnotdead #believeinfilm #noiretblanc #bwfilm #FujiEterna #Fujifilm #D76 #girls

🎓 The Threshold Moment
Frame I — The Aside
On a day meant for shared celebration — gowns, photos, congratulations — she steps aside. Something on the screen matters more, and the world pauses around her.

📋 Technical Credits
Location: Moscow, Pushkinskaya Embankment, Pier
Camera: Canon EOS 5 Lens: Canon Zoom Lens EF 70–210 mm
Film: Fujifilm Fuji Eterna (exact type unknown, heavily expired
Scanner: Fujifilm Frontier SP-3000 (no corrections applied)
Exposure: 100 ISO
Development: Kodak D-76, 7 minutes
Date: 15/09/2018

🎓 The Threshold Moment
Frame II — The Capture
On a day meant for shared celebration — gowns, photos, congratulations — she steps aside. Something on the screen matters more, and the world pauses around her.

📋 Technical Credits
Location: Moscow, Pushkinskaya Embankment, Pier
Camera: Canon EOS 5 Lens: Canon Zoom Lens EF 70–210 mm
Film: Fujifilm Fuji Eterna (exact type unknown, heavily expired
Scanner: Fujifilm Frontier SP-3000 (no corrections applied)
Exposure: 100 ISO
Development: Kodak D-76, 7 minutes
Date: 15/09/2018

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Andrew B. Barkhatov @abbsound.bsky.social · 14d

🎞️ The Touch Republic (Fujifilm Fuji Eterna + D76)
15/09/2018

#filmphotography #blackandwhite #monochrome #35mmFilm #monochrome #blackandwhite #FujiEterna #Fujifilm #D76 #bwfilm #noiretblanc #documentary #phojournalism #bnw #ClassicMono #streetphoto #blackandwhitephoto #street #everybodystreet

🎞️ The Touch
Frame I — Shared Sunlight
On the steps by the river, they sit together, the scooter waiting nearby. The city stretches wide, but their laughter narrows it to a single point.

Technical Credits:
Location: Moscow, Pushkinskaya Embankment, Pier
Camera: Canon EOS 5
Lens: Canon Zoom Lens EF 70–210 mm
Film: Fujifilm Fuji Eterna (exact type unknown, heavily expired
Exposure: Rated at ISO 100
Development: Kodak D-76, 7 minutes
Scanner: Fujifilm Frontier SP-3000 (no corrections applied)
Date: 15 September 2018
Notes: Storage conditions of the film unknown. The results are experimental, balancing chance and chemistry.

🎞️ The Touch
Frame I — Closer
Sunglasses hide the eyes, but not the tenderness. A head on the lap, a hand on the face — the city vanishes, leaving only them. The frame narrows, the bond grows deeper.

Technical Credits:
Location: Moscow, Pushkinskaya Embankment, Pier
Camera: Canon EOS 5
Lens: Canon Zoom Lens EF 70–210 mm
Film: Fujifilm Fuji Eterna (exact type unknown, heavily expired
Exposure: Rated at ISO 100
Development: Kodak D-76, 7 minutes
Scanner: Fujifilm Frontier SP-3000 (no corrections applied)
Date: 15 September 2018
Notes: Storage conditions of the film unknown. The results are experimental, balancing chance and chemistry.

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Andrew B. Barkhatov @abbsound.bsky.social · 16d

🎞️ The Bench Republic (Fujifilm Fuji Eterna + D76)
15/09/2018

#filmphotography #blackandwhite #monochrome #girls #bwfilm #monochrome #blackandwhite #FujiEterna #Fujifilm #D76 #ClassicMono #streetphoto #everybodystreet #filmisnotdead #noiretblanc #documentary #phojournalism #bnw #blackandwhitephoto

🎞️ The Bench Republic
Frame I — The Ritual
Braids, nails, chatter — a private ceremony of friendship, untouched by the city’s flow.

Technical Credits:
Location: Moscow, Gorky Park
Camera: Canon EOS 5
Lens: Canon Zoom Lens EF 70–210 mm
Film: Fujifilm Fuji Eterna (exact type unknown, heavily expired
Exposure: Rated at ISO 100
Development: Kodak D-76, 7 minutes
Scanner: Fujifilm Frontier SP-3000 (no corrections applied)
Date: 15 September 2018
Notes: Storage conditions of the film unknown. The results are experimental, balancing chance and chemistry.

🎞️ The Bench Republic
Frame II — The Intrusion
The shutter claps, and suddenly the island is aware of its borders. Their world remains intact, but now it knows it is being watched.

Technical Credits:
Location: Moscow, Gorky Park
Camera: Canon EOS 5
Lens: Canon Zoom Lens EF 70–210 mm
Film: Fujifilm Fuji Eterna (exact type unknown, heavily expired
Exposure: Rated at ISO 100
Development: Kodak D-76, 7 minutes
Scanner: Fujifilm Frontier SP-3000 (no corrections applied)
Date: 15 September 2018
Notes: Storage conditions of the film unknown. The results are experimental, balancing chance and chemistry.

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Andrew B. Barkhatov @abbsound.bsky.social · 17d

🎞️ The Legend of the Gorky Cup (Fujifilm Fuji Eterna + D76)
15/09/2018

#filmphotography #blackandwhite #monochrome #streetbw #believeinfilm #bwfilm #FujiEterna #Fujifilm #D76 #noiretblanc #blackandwhitephoto #documentary #phojournalism #bnw #ClassicMono #streetphoto #everybodystreet #filmisnotdead

🎞️ The Legend of the Gorky Cup
Frame I — The Rumor
They say the park keeps its own recipe, older than the bridge itself. Whether true or not, each bite tastes like a rumor turned into sugar.

Technical Credits
Location: Moscow, Krymsky Bridge (near Gorky Park)
Camera: Canon EOS 5
Lens: Canon Zoom Lens EF 70–210 mm
Film: Fujifilm Fuji Eterna (exact type unknown, heavily expired
Exposure: Rated at ISO 100
Development: Kodak D-76, 7 minutes
Scanner: Fujifilm Frontier SP-3000 (no corrections applied)
Date: 15 September 2018
Notes: Storage conditions of the film unknown. The results are experimental, balancing chance and chemistry.

The Legend of the Gorky Cup
Frame II — The Deal
Not money, not ice cream — but a ritual. A fleeting ceremony of giving and receiving, performed on the bridge of the city.

Technical Credits
Location: Moscow, Krymsky Bridge (near Gorky Park)
Camera: Canon EOS 5
Lens: Canon Zoom Lens EF 70–210 mm
Film: Fujifilm Fuji Eterna (exact type unknown, heavily expired
Exposure: Rated at ISO 100
Development: Kodak D-76, 7 minutes
Scanner: Fujifilm Frontier SP-3000 (no corrections applied)
Date: 15 September 2018
Notes: Storage conditions of the film unknown. The results are experimental, balancing chance and chemistry.

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Andrew B. Barkhatov @abbsound.bsky.social · 18d

🎞️ Love at First Bite (Fujifilm Fuji Eterna + D76)
15/09/2018

#filmphotography #believeinfilm #bwfilm #Fujifilm #FujiEterna #D76 #blackandwhite #noiretblanc #filmphoto #documentary #everybodystreet #filmisnotdead #blackandwhitephoto #bw #streetphoto #35mm #childrenphoto #children #nostalgia #retro

🎞️ Love at First Bite
Frame I — The Tease

She bites the cone with exaggerated flair, a performance of sweetness and defiance. He stares, caught between awe and confusion, as if the cone were a challenge.
Technical Credits
Location: Moscow, Gorky Park — Москва, Парк Горького
Camera: Canon EOS 5
Lens: Canon Zoom Lens EF 70–210 mm
Film: Fujifilm Fuji Eterna (exact type unknown, heavily expired
Exposure: Rated at ISO 100
Development: Kodak D-76, 7 minutes
Scanner: Fujifilm Frontier SP-3000 (no corrections applied)
Date: 15 September 2018
Notes: Storage conditions of the film unknown. The results are experimental, balancing chance and chemistry.

🎞️ Love at First Bite
Frame II — The Consent
He dares, and she lets him. Her gaze softens, approving, amused. The ice cream is no longer hers or his, but theirs.
Technical Credits
Location: Moscow, Gorky Park — Москва, Парк Горького
Camera: Canon EOS 5
Lens: Canon Zoom Lens EF 70–210 mm
Film: Fujifilm Fuji Eterna (exact type unknown, heavily expired
Exposure: Rated at ISO 100
Development: Kodak D-76, 7 minutes
Scanner: Fujifilm Frontier SP-3000 (no corrections applied)
Date: 15 September 2018
Notes: Storage conditions of the film unknown. The results are experimental, balancing chance and chemistry.

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Andrew B. Barkhatov @abbsound.bsky.social · 19d

“The Little Voice Louder Than Books”
Mark Sandomirsky, surrounded by shelves and beard, holds a child‑figure sculpted by symptom. The library stays silent, but the toy whispers louder than the books — as if the whole city leaned in through a crumb and a gesture.
#blackandwhite #psychology #portrait

“The psychologist Mark Sandomirsky in his Moscow study. In his hands — a figure of the inner child, shaped by a patient. A small companion reminding us: sometimes the quietest voice drowns out the library.”

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Andrew B. Barkhatov @abbsound.bsky.social · 22d

"Parallel Closeness" (Underground Lives)
18.09.2025

#StreetPhotography #SubwayLife #UrbanIntimacy #CandidMoments #BlackAndWhitePhoto #QuietDrama #UrbanExistence #LifeInTransit #SubwaySurrealism #ClassicMono #everybodystreet #noir #noiretblanc #documentary #phojournalism #streetbw #everybodystreet

The train was heading toward the dark, but the dark kept transferring to the next car. She held his shoulder the way you hold a sleeping pigeon, afraid it might fly up to the ceiling. He held a phone where black‑and‑white snow kept falling, and the snow smelled faintly of iron. The carriage trembled like an old refrigerator where someone had forgotten a heart. Somewhere beyond the glass, a voice announced a station that wasn’t on the map, and they both nodded — yes, time to get off — but stayed seated, each inside their own screen, each inside their own world, still together.
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Series: "Life in the Tunnel That Never Ends" (Underground Lives)
Photo taken: September 18, 2025

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Andrew B. Barkhatov @abbsound.bsky.social · 23d

🎬 Grain of the Day – Unscripted Noir
Spring wandered. The camera followed.
Moscow, Spring 2018

#filmphotography #agfaaviphot #agfapan80 #documentary #everybodystreet #filmisnotdead #blackandwhitephoto #bw #blackandwhite #noiretblanc #believeinfilm #bnw #filmphoto #bwfilm #noir #dark #moscow

“The Smallest Director” (Agfa Aviphot Pan 80)
He framed someone he loved. We’ll never know who.
Series: 🎬 Grain of the Day – Unscripted Noir
Technical details: Russia. Moscow, Yakimanskaya Embankment. Photo taken: 04 May 2018 Camera: Canon EOS 5 Lens: Canon Zoom Lens EF 70–210 mm Film: Agfa Aviphot Pan 80 (expired) Developed in: Silberra Ascorol for 10 min Scanner: Epson Stylus Photo RX500

“Dialogue in Monochrome”
Shot in noir. Played in silence.
They spoke. The frame stayed silent.
Series: 🎬 Grain of the Day – Unscripted Noir
Technical details: Russia. Moscow, Manezhnaya Square. Photo taken: 04 May 2018 Camera: Canon EOS 5 Lens: Canon Zoom Lens EF 70–210 mm Film: Agfa Aviphot Pan 80 (expired) Developed in: Silberra Ascorol for 10 min Scanner: Epson Stylus Photo RX500

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Andrew B. Barkhatov @abbsound.bsky.social · 25d

Raw Spring 2018 — Gorky Park
01. “The Ice Cream Waits”
02. “Lunch, framed in monochrome.”

#filmphotography #streetportrait #noir #dark #agfaaviphot #agfapan80 #documentary #everybodystreet #filmisnotdead #blackandwhitephoto #bw #blackandwhite #noiretblanc #believeinfilm #bnw #filmphoto #bwfilm

Technical details:
Russia. Moscow, Gorky Park Photo taken: 04 May 2018 Camera: Canon EOS 5 Lens: Canon Zoom Lens EF 70–210 mm Film: Agfa Aviphot Pan 80 (expired) Developed in: Silberra Ascorol for 10 min Scanner: Epson Stylus Photo RX500

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Andrew B. Barkhatov @abbsound.bsky.social · 28d

"Day Replayed by Film" (Agfa Aviphot Pan 80)
Raw Spring 2018 — Gorky Park
04 May 2018

#filmphotography #streetportrait #selfie #noir #dark #agfaaviphot #agfapan80 #filmphoto #bwfilm #documentary #everybodystreet #filmisnotdead #blackandwhitephoto #bw #blackandwhite #noiretblanc #believeinfilm #bnw

"Catching a Signal Through Light and Time"
Raw Spring 2018 — Gorky Park
04 May 2018

He holds the phone with precision, like a tool, like a weapon, like something that might reveal more than he intends.
His face is carved in focus, expression unreadable, but the gesture — the act of turning the lens inward — is quietly radical.
In this frame, the contrast isn’t just in the film, but in the man himself: tough lines, soft ritual, a moment of self-regard caught between shadows.

Technical details:
Russia. Moscow, Gorky Park Photo taken: 04 May 2018 Camera: Canon EOS 5 Lens: Canon Zoom Lens EF 70–210 mm Film: Agfa Aviphot Pan 80 (expired) Developed in: Silberra Ascorol for 10 min Scanner: Epson Stylus Photo RX500

"Echoes of Bright Shadows or The Second Glance"
Raw Spring 2018 — Gorky Park
04 May 2018

His arm extends, the phone held steady, the background fades into shadow — and suddenly, it’s just him and the version of himself he’s trying to catch.
No smile, no pose, just the quiet tension of someone who knows that even a selfie can be a serious thing.
The light carves his face, the film deepens the silence, and the gesture — so familiar, so modern — becomes something mythic in monochrome.

Technical details:
Russia. Moscow, Gorky Park Photo taken: 04 May 2018 Camera: Canon EOS 5 Lens: Canon Zoom Lens EF 70–210 mm Film: Agfa Aviphot Pan 80 (expired) Developed in: Silberra Ascorol for 10 min Scanner: Epson Stylus Photo RX500

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Andrew B. Barkhatov @abbsound.bsky.social · 29d

🎬 Grain of the Day – Unscripted Noir
Spring wandered. The camera followed.
Gorky Park, Spring 2018
The Yuri “Lomografik”’s Spring

#filmphotography #35mm #blackandwhite #agfaaviphot #agfapan80 #filmphoto #lomography #dark #noiretblanc #streetphotography #noir #believeinfilm #streetbw #realpeople

01. The Lomografik Walks: He Shoots What Moves
Every step a frame. Every frame a pursuit. He doesn’t wait for moments. He hunts them.

Technical details: Russia. Moscow, Gorky Park. Pushkin Pier. Photo taken: 04 May 2018 Camera: Canon EOS 5 Lens: Canon Zoom Lens EF 70–210 mm Film: Agfa Aviphot Pan 80 (expired) Developed in: Silberra Ascorol for 10 min Scanner: Epson Stylus Photo RX500

02. “Failed Frame, True Motion”

Technical details: Russia. Moscow, Gorky Park. Pushkin Pier. Photo taken: 04 May 2018 Camera: Canon EOS 5 Lens: Canon Zoom Lens EF 70–210 mm Film: Agfa Aviphot Pan 80 (expired) Developed in: Silberra Ascorol for 10 min Scanner: Epson Stylus Photo RX500

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Andrew B. Barkhatov @abbsound.bsky.social · Sep 14

The Light Between Faces (Aviphot 80)
Raw Spring 2018 — Gorky Park
04 May 2018

#filmphotography #streetportrait #selfie #noir #dark #girls #agfaaviphot #agfapan80 #filmphoto #bwfilm #documentary #everybodystreet #filmisnotdead #blackandwhitephoto #bw #blackandwhite #noiretblanc #believeinfilm #bnw

📱 The Mirror in Her Hand
(Raw Spring 2018 — Gorky Park: “The Light Between Faces”)
She holds the phone like a mirror, but it’s the film that reflects her best.
A pendant catches the light, her smile is half-thought, and the background dissolves into soft ghosts of flowers and sky.
It’s a selfie, yes — but also a quiet ritual: a girl, a frame, and the moment she chooses to be seen.
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A phone lifted. A glance shared. Spring leans in, and the film listens.
Each frame holds not just a face, but the space between — where light, memory, and gesture briefly align.

Technical details:
Russia. Moscow, Gorky Park
Photo taken: 04 May 2018
Camera: Canon EOS 5
Lens: Canon Zoom Lens EF 70–210 mm
Film: Agfa Aviphot Pan 80 (expired)
Developed in: Silberra Ascorol for 10 min
Scanner: Epson Stylus Photo RX500

🎧 Signal to Self
(Raw Spring 2018 — Gorky Park: “The Light Between Faces”)
She sits cross-legged, earphones in, phone raised — not to speak, but to send a signal inward.
The bench is public, the park alive, but in this frame, she’s alone with the lens.
A backpack slung, a jacket zipped, and the quiet concentration of someone composing a version of herself that feels just right for this light, this angle, this day.
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A phone lifted. A glance shared. Spring leans in, and the film listens.
Each frame holds not just a face, but the space between — where light, memory, and gesture briefly align.

Technical details:
Russia. Moscow, Gorky Park
Photo taken: 04 May 2018
Camera: Canon EOS 5
Lens: Canon Zoom Lens EF 70–210 mm
Film: Agfa Aviphot Pan 80 (expired)
Developed in: Silberra Ascorol for 10 min
Scanner: Epson Stylus Photo RX500

🌸 Petal Frame
(Raw Spring 2018 — Gorky Park: “The Light Between Faces”)
Two women lean in, one young, one older, their smiles soft, their gesture simple: a shared selfie, framed by blossoms.
The phone rises like a quiet offering, not to the world, but to memory.
The film deepens the shadows, but the light is still there — in their eyes, in the way they fit together, in the way spring wraps around them like a second skin.
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A phone lifted. A glance shared. Spring leans in, and the film listens.
Each frame holds not just a face, but the space between — where light, memory, and gesture briefly align.

Technical details:
Russia. Moscow, Gorky Park
Photo taken: 04 May 2018
Camera: Canon EOS 5
Lens: Canon Zoom Lens EF 70–210 mm
Film: Agfa Aviphot Pan 80 (expired)
Developed in: Silberra Ascorol for 10 min
Scanner: Epson Stylus Photo RX500

📱 What the Screen Remembers
(Raw Spring 2018 — Gorky Park: “The Light Between Faces”)
Two figures, close enough to share a frame, closer still to share a silence.
The phone is there — held gently, not posed. Are they capturing the moment, or revisiting one already lived?
We don’t know. But the way they lean in, the way the light touches their hands, the way the film wraps the scene in soft grain — it feels like memory, not performance.
A quiet finale, where the image on the screen might be less important than the act of looking together.
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A phone lifted. A glance shared. Spring leans in, and the film listens.
Each frame holds not just a face, but the space between — where light, memory, and gesture briefly align.

Technical details:
Russia. Moscow, Gorky Park
Photo taken: 04 May 2018
Camera: Canon EOS 5
Lens: Canon Zoom Lens EF 70–210 mm
Film: Agfa Aviphot Pan 80 (expired)
Developed in: Silberra Ascorol for 10 min
Scanner: Epson Stylus Photo RX500

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Andrew B. Barkhatov @abbsound.bsky.social · Sep 13

🍭 Cotton Candy Noir (Agfa Aviphot Pan 80)
Raw Spring 2018 — Gorky Park
04 May 2018

#filmphotography #moscowstreet #monochrome #film #blackandwhite #girl #summer #dark #noir #girls #female #believeinfilm #agfaaviphot #agfapan80 #filmphoto #bnw #streetphotography #noiretblanc #bwfilm #documentary

They walk slowly, two girls with cotton candy in hand, as if spring handed them a gift and they’re still deciding whether to eat it or keep it.

The scene should be soft — sunlight, sugar, laughter — but the film has other plans.

Scratches slice through the emulsion like memory scars, and the shadows lean in too close. Even the kiosk behind them whispers in Cyrillic: this is Moscow, and even sweetness here wears a darker coat.

But they don’t mind. They walk on, bright against the grain, like a pop song playing through a dusty speaker.

Technical details:
Russia. Moscow, Gorky Park
Photo taken: 04 May 2018
Camera: Canon EOS 5
Lens: Canon Zoom Lens EF 70–210 mm
Film: Agfa Aviphot Pan 80 (expired)
Developed in: Silberra Ascorol for 10 min
Scanner: Epson Stylus Photo RX500

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Andrew B. Barkhatov @abbsound.bsky.social · Sep 10

“No stage, no rules — just rhythm, youth, and open sky.”
Raw Spring 2018 — Gorky Park (Agfa Aviphot Pan 80)

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“No stage, no rules — just rhythm, youth, and open sky.”
Raw Spring 2018 — Gorky Park (Agfa Aviphot Pan 80)

1️⃣ Pokémon Jam Session

The chords are simple, but the joy is layered. One strums, one sings, one reads — and all three are inside the song.

The hoodies with ears aren’t costumes, they’re declarations: we’re here to play, not just music, but life.
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Intro: Somewhere between spring and summer, three girls sat down on the grass with a guitar, a notebook, and a few soft beanbags. They weren’t performing — they were just being. Music drifted out in fragments, lyrics half‑read, half‑invented, and the park leaned in to listen.

This triptych captures not a concert, but a moment of shared rhythm, where friendship, play, and the season itself tuned into the same frequency.
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Technical details (all three frames): Russia. Moscow, Gorky Park Photo taken: 04 May 2018 Camera: Canon EOS 5 Lens: Canon Zoom Lens EF 70–210 mm Film: Agfa Aviphot Pan 80 (expired) Developed in: Silberra Ascorol for 10 min Scanner: Epson Stylus Photo RX500

2️⃣ The Pause Between Chords

The guitar rests for a moment, and so do they. Not silence — just the kind of quiet where ideas bloom.

Someone says something funny, someone else hums a line, and the song begins again before it’s even finished ending.
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Intro: Somewhere between spring and summer, three girls sat down on the grass with a guitar, a notebook, and a few soft beanbags. They weren’t performing — they were just being. Music drifted out in fragments, lyrics half‑read, half‑invented, and the park leaned in to listen.

This triptych captures not a concert, but a moment of shared rhythm, where friendship, play, and the season itself tuned into the same frequency.
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Technical details (all three frames): Russia. Moscow, Gorky Park Photo taken: 04 May 2018 Camera: Canon EOS 5 Lens: Canon Zoom Lens EF 70–210 mm Film: Agfa Aviphot Pan 80 (expired) Developed in: Silberra Ascorol for 10 min Scanner: Epson Stylus Photo RX500

3️⃣ Spring in Their Laughter

The camera pulls back. Now we see the trees, the beanbags, the way the grass folds around their little camp.

They’re not alone — others lounge nearby, but the trio is in their own season.

There’s music, there’s laughter, and there’s that feeling that summer is close enough to touch.
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Intro: Somewhere between spring and summer, three girls sat down on the grass with a guitar, a notebook, and a few soft beanbags. They weren’t performing — they were just being. Music drifted out in fragments, lyrics half‑read, half‑invented, and the park leaned in to listen.

This triptych captures not a concert, but a moment of shared rhythm, where friendship, play, and the season itself tuned into the same frequency.
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Technical details (all three frames): Russia. Moscow, Gorky Park Photo taken: 04 May 2018 Camera: Canon EOS 5 Lens: Canon Zoom Lens EF 70–210 mm Film: Agfa Aviphot Pan 80 (expired) Developed in: Silberra Ascorol for 10 min Scanner: Epson Stylus Photo RX500

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Andrew B. Barkhatov @abbsound.bsky.social · Sep 8

“The Picnic We Weren’t Invited To” (Agfa Aviphot Pan 80)
Chapter from Raw Spring 2018
04 May 2018

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🥪 Picnic, or Something Else?
Raw Spring 2018 — Park Life

Two women sit on a blanket in the grass, a bottle and a container between them — the quiet currency of a shared afternoon.

They look toward the camera, not startled, not posing — just acknowledging the presence of another observer.

The branches in the foreground frame them like a secret, as if we’re peeking in on a scene that might be just a picnic… or the prologue to something we’ll never know.

Technical details:
Russia. Moscow, Gorky Park
Photo taken: 04 May 2018
Camera: Canon EOS 5
Lens: Canon Zoom Lens EF 70–210mm
Film: Agfa Aviphot Pan 80 (expired)
Developer: Silberra Ascorol, 10 minutes
Scanner: Epson Stylus Photo RX500

🥪 Caught in the Parkscape
Raw Spring 2018 — Park Life

Under the leaning tree, the blanket is still spread, the bottle still catching the light, but now the park stretches wide around them — paths, grass, and the slow drift of other lives.

They’ve spotted me. It’s not alarm, not quite — more the quick flicker of realizing that their quiet corner isn’t as invisible as it felt.

For a moment, the picnic becomes a stage, the tree a curtain, and I’m the uninvited audience to a play that was never meant to have one.

Technical details:
Russia. Moscow, Gorky Park
Photo taken: 04 May 2018
Camera: Canon EOS 5
Lens: Canon Zoom Lens EF 70–210mm
Film: Agfa Aviphot Pan 80 (expired)
Developer: Silberra Ascorol, 10 minutes
Scanner: Epson Stylus Photo RX500

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Andrew B. Barkhatov @abbsound.bsky.social · Sep 5

📷 Lomografik — Before the Hunt
Raw Spring 2018 — Park Life
(featuring Yuri “Lomografik”)

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1️⃣ The Pause Before the Hunt

He sits with a vintage camera in his hands — not heavy, but carrying the weight of decades. Metal, glass, and the quiet stubbornness of a machine built in the 70s, still ready to chase light through the streets.

Somewhere in the park, frames are already waiting for him — faces in passing, shadows on stone, a gesture that will vanish if he’s late.

For now, he just studies the old companion, listening to the silence between clicks, the way a hunter listens to the wind.

Intro: In Yuri’s hands, a vintage 1970s camera is more than just a tool. It’s a passport into a slower world, where every frame is hunted down with patience and light is something you earn, not just capture.

This diptych holds two moments from the same day: the quiet before stepping into the streets, and the instant when the hunter himself becomes the one under watch.

Technical details (both frames): Russia. Moscow, Gorky Park Photo taken: 04 May 2018 Camera: Canon EOS 5 Lens: Canon Zoom Lens EF 70–210 mm Film: Agfa Aviphot Pan 80 (expired) Developer: Silberra Ascorol, 10 minutes Scanner: Epson Stylus Photo RX500

$2️⃣ Under Watch From a distance, the bench is just another piece of park furniture, and the man on it — just another visitor. But the cameras in his hands are older than most of the people passing by, and they draw eyes the way a bright coin catches light. The park guard walks past, his gaze lingering a fraction longer than casual. Not hostile, not friendly — just the quiet calculation of someone trained to notice what doesn’t quite fit the everyday pattern. Yuri doesn’t flinch. He’s been here before, in parks, in streets, in that thin space between being invisible and being observed. The hunt will go on — but for a moment, it’s two professionals measuring each other in silence. Technical details (both frames): Russia. Moscow, Gorky Park Photo taken: 04 May 2018 Camera: Canon EOS 5 Lens: Canon Zoom Lens EF 70–210 mm Film: Agfa Aviphot Pan 80 (expired) Developer: Silberra Ascorol, 10 minutes Scanner: Epson Stylus Photo RX500$

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Andrew B. Barkhatov @abbsound.bsky.social · Sep 5

🌷 Framing the Bloom (Agfa Aviphot Pan 80)
People in Flowers — Raw Spring 2018

#filmphotography #35mm #blackandwhite #noiretblanc #flowers #people #lomography #bw #believeinfilm #agfaaviphot #agfapan80 #filmphoto #woman #BWFilm #dark #filmstock #noir #streetphotography #summer #documentary #female

She stands in the middle of the tulips as if she’s stepped through a hidden gate into a place where petals listen.

The phone in her hand is just a pretext — the real work is happening in her eyes, in the way her lips move, shaping quiet phrases meant only for the flowers.

Maybe she’s giving them instructions, like a patient photographer with shy models. Maybe she’s telling them a secret so they’ll open just a little wider.

Whatever it is, the smile says she’s getting exactly the shot she wanted — and something more she’ll never post online.

Technical details: Russia. Moscow, Gorky Park Photo taken: 04 May 2018 Camera: Canon EOS 5 Lens: Canon Zoom Lens EF 70–210mm Film: Agfa Aviphot Pan 80 (expired) Developer: Silberra Ascorol, 10 minutes Scanner: Epson Stylus Photo RX500

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Andrew B. Barkhatov @abbsound.bsky.social · Sep 4

🌷 People in Flowers (Agfa Aviphot Pan 80)
Chapter from Raw Summer 2017

#filmphotography #35mm #blackandwhite #noiretblanc #flowers #people #lomography #bw #believeinfilm #agfaaviphot #agfapan80 #filmphoto #UrbanWildlife #BWFilm #dark #filmstock #noir #streetphotography #summer #documentary

🌷 Captain of the Tulip Seas
People in Flowers — Raw Summer 2017

She lowers herself into a squat — not the easiest move, but worth it for the perfect shot. Phone in hand, eyes locked on her subject, she’s the captain steering through a calm sea of tulips.

In front of her, the young woman sits dreamily, as if already adrift, her thoughts sailing far beyond the garden’s edge on the gentle waves of white blooms.

One captures the moment, the other drifts inside it. And somewhere between them, the flowers keep their own quiet counsel.

Technical details: Moscow. Gorky Park Camera: Canon EOS 5 Lens: Canon Zoom Lens EF 70–210mm Film: Agfa Aviphot Pan 80 (expired, date unknown) Developer: Silberra Ascorol, 10 minutes Photo taken: 29 July 2017 Scanner: Noritsu LS‑1100

🌷 The Gardener of Pixels
People in Flowers — Raw Summer 2017

He squats low beside the tulips, one hand in the soil, the other holding a phone — half gardener, half archivist.

The flowers don’t care who loves them more, men or women. They lean toward the light all the same, while we lean toward them, each in our own way — to touch, to frame, to remember.

Technical details: Moscow. Gorky Park Camera: Canon EOS 5 Lens: Canon Zoom Lens EF 70–210mm Film: Agfa Aviphot Pan 80 (expired, date unknown) Developer: Silberra Ascorol, 10 minutes Photo taken: 29 July 2017 Scanner: Noritsu LS‑1100

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