Russia’s city of shadows Alexey Titarenko’s photos use long exposure to capture the ‘infernal’ atmosphere of 1990s St. Petersburg

Russia’s city of shadows Alexey Titarenko’s photos use long exposure to capture the ‘infernal’ atmosphere of 1990s St. Petersburg

This fall, an exhibition by Soviet-American photographer Alexey Titarenko opened in the Italian city of Monopoli as part of the PhEST photography and art festival. Around the same time, the U.S. publisher Nailya Alexander Gallery released the second edition of his book, which brings together his projects “City of Shadows,” “The Black and White Magic of St. Petersburg,” and “Frozen Time.”