Phew, what a week. I started my photography trip „East 13“ on Monday, 30th September. It‘s going to be a two and a half month journey through Eastern Europe, Central Asia, China and Southeast Asia. A friend from London is joining me and apart from my usual every day life documentary I am planning to do a portrait project in Cambodia at the beginning of November.

 

We started in Berlin on Monday morning with the Warsawa Express and leave Moscow tomorrow morning. Have a look what happened in between, it was a lot and we met incredibly nice people on the way ...

 

On the train to Warsaw, our first stop, we shared a compartment with a Polish father and his two boys. We talked most of the time and we learned a bit about Poland ...

 

 

Our first stop was Warsaw. We spent the day with Ilona, a friend, and she introduced us to this very interesting city.

 

 

This is quite funny, a lottery window, look at the chestnuts placed there as well :-)

 

 

This Varsovian played the sticks on a chair, really cool ...

 

 

Then on Tuesday evening we took the sleeping coach to Kiev.

 

 

And at the border something really, really strange happened. The train stopped inside an industrial building and a bunch of workers appeared. They changed the wheels of our entire train to be able to proceed on Ukrainean rails. The whole thing took three hours. Weird!

 

 

In the morning we arrived in Kiev.

 

  

And then we took the train to Moscow arriving there on Saturday morning. We met a lot of nice people in the Hostel and Igor the host was just as welcoming as it can get. Moscow is massive and there's a lot of luxury, everything is pretty expensive but when you move out to the suburbs you see that most people are living a pretty basic life. Have a look at my Moscow footage ...

 

 

That's it! I wanna come back to Russia at some point. Tomorrow we're heading to Kyrgyzstan, very excited.

 

Check back soon for some more documentary ...

 

KIKI