The great philosopher Voltaire applied the literary method ‘the view from outside’ to describe France on behalf of foreign characters or, even better, the Earth on behalf of aliens in order to better comprehend French society. A traveling artist also sees a foreign place from a different angle and often captures something special that looked […]
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Russia is actually the biggest country in the world, but I realized this only when traveling more across the European continent. Everything seemed to me so near! For us Russians, a neighboring city is located only on a night trip by train. And it’s quite usual to travel by train for 40 hours and beyond. […]
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The photographs document my first impressions of urban life in so-called new German states – Brandenburg, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia – which were dissolved by the East German government in 1952 and were re-established in 1990. # Halle-Neustadt # Leipzig Leipzig, the biggest city in Saxony, met me with rainy weather, so the city is in no […]
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Tallinn is a charming Baltic town that absolutely caught my heart. After gigantic Moscow, it seemed to me like a little fairy tale – its old town, the Estonian language that sounds so extremely difficult to learn… I visited my family there, and I did not photograph much, but I have realized how much I […]
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Whether you are a university, a hotel, an NGO, or a private company, contact me if you wish to promote the aesthetics of European urban fine art photography – in general, or of a specific European city in particular. Together we will create cool high-quality eco-friendly prints or decor products with my photographic art. If […]
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Ira Golenkova Ferrero 