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 ...
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Our first stop was Warsaw. We spent the day with Ilona, a friend, and she introduced us to this very interesting city.
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This is quite funny, a lottery window, look at the chestnuts placed there as well :-)
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This Varsovian played the sticks on a chair, really cool ...
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Then on Tuesday evening we took the sleeping coach to Kiev.
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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!
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In the morning we arrived in Kiev.
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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 ...
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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 ...
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