A narrow Moscow courtyard between pale buildings, with leafy trees and white fluff scattered across the asphalt.

Moscow Walks: Glass, Brick and Working Details

A walk through Moscow on 7 June 2021, following back courtyards, patched walls and small things left beside doors. Old brick, glass, pipes, tangled cables and improvised repairs give these streets their texture.

A narrow Moscow courtyard between pale buildings, with leafy trees and white fluff scattered across the asphalt.
A shaded passage with yellow brick walls, a curved corner and a small graffiti-marked window in Moscow.
A bent metal pipe fixed to a grey building corner beside a narrow Moscow street.
Torn white mesh reveals rusted metal bars and a dark window set in brickwork in Moscow.
Close view of projecting red brickwork beneath a torn white covering on a Moscow building.
A cafe doorway beneath a Cyrillic sign and an air-conditioning unit on a pale Moscow facade.
Buildings and sky reflected in white-framed windows beside an open section covered with silver material in Moscow.
An orange bench vice and a plastic bottle sit on a worn work stand in front of a blue metal container in Moscow.
A black exterior fire escape zigzags between a red brick wall and a curved white facade in Moscow.
Gas cylinders on wheeled trolleys stand beside a white brick wall and a yellow warning sign on a Moscow pavement.
Open metal doors beneath an arched brick opening, with rows of tall windows above a Moscow courtyard.
Reflections of nearby buildings run across a row of dark, wood-framed windows in Moscow.
A short concrete staircase rises beside a pale yellow wall above patterned pavement in Moscow.
Rectangular openings line up through a dark ruined interior behind a rough brick window frame in Moscow.
Climbing green leaves surround a low window and glass blocks beneath yellow pipework on a Moscow wall.
Green climbing leaves overlap a wall of rippled glass blocks in a close Moscow street detail.
A yellow painted pipe runs past green climbing leaves and rippled glass blocks on a Moscow building.
A blue street-number plate sits on a weathered white wall with exposed red brick and a boarded opening in Moscow.
A faded yellow plaque above a basement window in pale brickwork, with worn stone and plants below in Moscow.
Empty windows, exposed brick and crumbling plaster cover a disused building above rubble in a Moscow courtyard.
A round mirror rests on an orange chair in front of wooden boards beneath a leafy tree in a Moscow courtyard.
Loops of barbed wire project from a pale wall with metal brackets and an air-conditioning unit in Moscow.
A weathered wooden door with a blank pale panel and a hanging light above it in a dark Moscow doorway.
Black utility cables cross an old brick facade with arched windows beneath a blue Moscow sky.
Drops Raindrops rest on broad, dark green leaves.

Seventeen photographs of rain and what it leaves behind: drops on leaves and glass, puddles that hold a street or a sky, umbrellas and wet pavements under evening lights.

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