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Andrew B. Barkhatov

@abbsound.bsky.social

🎬 Grain of the Day – Unscripted Noir
Spring wandered. The camera followed.
Moscow, Spring 2018

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“The Smallest Director” (Agfa Aviphot Pan 80)
He framed someone he loved. We’ll never know who.
Series: 🎬 Grain of the Day – Unscripted Noir
Technical details: Russia. Moscow, Yakimanskaya Embankment. Photo taken: 04 May 2018 Camera: Canon EOS 5 Lens: Canon Zoom Lens EF 70–210 mm Film: Agfa Aviphot Pan 80 (expired) Developed in: Silberra Ascorol for 10 min Scanner: Epson Stylus Photo RX500

“Dialogue in Monochrome”
Shot in noir. Played in silence.
They spoke. The frame stayed silent.
Series: 🎬 Grain of the Day – Unscripted Noir
Technical details: Russia. Moscow, Manezhnaya Square. Photo taken: 04 May 2018 Camera: Canon EOS 5 Lens: Canon Zoom Lens EF 70–210 mm Film: Agfa Aviphot Pan 80 (expired) Developed in: Silberra Ascorol for 10 min Scanner: Epson Stylus Photo RX500

September 25, 2025 at 12:48 PM

Andrew B. Barkhatov

@abbsound.bsky.social

Raw Spring 2018 — Gorky Park
01. “The Ice Cream Waits”
02. “Lunch, framed in monochrome.”

#filmphotography #streetportrait #noir #dark #agfaaviphot #agfapan80 #documentary #everybodystreet #filmisnotdead #blackandwhitephoto #bw #blackandwhite #noiretblanc #believeinfilm #bnw #filmphoto #bwfilm

Technical details:
Russia. Moscow, Gorky Park Photo taken: 04 May 2018 Camera: Canon EOS 5 Lens: Canon Zoom Lens EF 70–210 mm Film: Agfa Aviphot Pan 80 (expired) Developed in: Silberra Ascorol for 10 min Scanner: Epson Stylus Photo RX500

September 23, 2025 at 2:37 AM

Andrew B. Barkhatov

@abbsound.bsky.social

"Day Replayed by Film" (Agfa Aviphot Pan 80)
Raw Spring 2018 — Gorky Park
04 May 2018

#filmphotography #streetportrait #selfie #noir #dark #agfaaviphot #agfapan80 #filmphoto #bwfilm #documentary #everybodystreet #filmisnotdead #blackandwhitephoto #bw #blackandwhite #noiretblanc #believeinfilm #bnw

"Catching a Signal Through Light and Time"
Raw Spring 2018 — Gorky Park
04 May 2018

He holds the phone with precision, like a tool, like a weapon, like something that might reveal more than he intends.
His face is carved in focus, expression unreadable, but the gesture — the act of turning the lens inward — is quietly radical.
In this frame, the contrast isn’t just in the film, but in the man himself: tough lines, soft ritual, a moment of self-regard caught between shadows.

Technical details:
Russia. Moscow, Gorky Park Photo taken: 04 May 2018 Camera: Canon EOS 5 Lens: Canon Zoom Lens EF 70–210 mm Film: Agfa Aviphot Pan 80 (expired) Developed in: Silberra Ascorol for 10 min Scanner: Epson Stylus Photo RX500

"Echoes of Bright Shadows or The Second Glance"
Raw Spring 2018 — Gorky Park
04 May 2018

His arm extends, the phone held steady, the background fades into shadow — and suddenly, it’s just him and the version of himself he’s trying to catch.
No smile, no pose, just the quiet tension of someone who knows that even a selfie can be a serious thing.
The light carves his face, the film deepens the silence, and the gesture — so familiar, so modern — becomes something mythic in monochrome.

Technical details:
Russia. Moscow, Gorky Park Photo taken: 04 May 2018 Camera: Canon EOS 5 Lens: Canon Zoom Lens EF 70–210 mm Film: Agfa Aviphot Pan 80 (expired) Developed in: Silberra Ascorol for 10 min Scanner: Epson Stylus Photo RX500

September 19, 2025 at 7:10 PM

Andrew B. Barkhatov

@abbsound.bsky.social

🎬 Grain of the Day – Unscripted Noir
Spring wandered. The camera followed.
Gorky Park, Spring 2018
The Yuri “Lomografik”’s Spring

#filmphotography #35mm #blackandwhite #agfaaviphot #agfapan80 #filmphoto #lomography #dark #noiretblanc #streetphotography #noir #believeinfilm #streetbw #realpeople

01. The Lomografik Walks: He Shoots What Moves
Every step a frame. Every frame a pursuit. He doesn’t wait for moments. He hunts them.

Technical details: Russia. Moscow, Gorky Park. Pushkin Pier. Photo taken: 04 May 2018 Camera: Canon EOS 5 Lens: Canon Zoom Lens EF 70–210 mm Film: Agfa Aviphot Pan 80 (expired) Developed in: Silberra Ascorol for 10 min Scanner: Epson Stylus Photo RX500

02. “Failed Frame, True Motion”

Technical details: Russia. Moscow, Gorky Park. Pushkin Pier. Photo taken: 04 May 2018 Camera: Canon EOS 5 Lens: Canon Zoom Lens EF 70–210 mm Film: Agfa Aviphot Pan 80 (expired) Developed in: Silberra Ascorol for 10 min Scanner: Epson Stylus Photo RX500

September 19, 2025 at 2:21 AM

Andrew B. Barkhatov

@abbsound.bsky.social

The Light Between Faces (Aviphot 80)
Raw Spring 2018 — Gorky Park
04 May 2018

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📱 The Mirror in Her Hand
(Raw Spring 2018 — Gorky Park: “The Light Between Faces”)
She holds the phone like a mirror, but it’s the film that reflects her best.
A pendant catches the light, her smile is half-thought, and the background dissolves into soft ghosts of flowers and sky.
It’s a selfie, yes — but also a quiet ritual: a girl, a frame, and the moment she chooses to be seen.
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A phone lifted. A glance shared. Spring leans in, and the film listens.
Each frame holds not just a face, but the space between — where light, memory, and gesture briefly align.

Technical details:
Russia. Moscow, Gorky Park
Photo taken: 04 May 2018
Camera: Canon EOS 5
Lens: Canon Zoom Lens EF 70–210 mm
Film: Agfa Aviphot Pan 80 (expired)
Developed in: Silberra Ascorol for 10 min
Scanner: Epson Stylus Photo RX500

🎧 Signal to Self
(Raw Spring 2018 — Gorky Park: “The Light Between Faces”)
She sits cross-legged, earphones in, phone raised — not to speak, but to send a signal inward.
The bench is public, the park alive, but in this frame, she’s alone with the lens.
A backpack slung, a jacket zipped, and the quiet concentration of someone composing a version of herself that feels just right for this light, this angle, this day.
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A phone lifted. A glance shared. Spring leans in, and the film listens.
Each frame holds not just a face, but the space between — where light, memory, and gesture briefly align.

Technical details:
Russia. Moscow, Gorky Park
Photo taken: 04 May 2018
Camera: Canon EOS 5
Lens: Canon Zoom Lens EF 70–210 mm
Film: Agfa Aviphot Pan 80 (expired)
Developed in: Silberra Ascorol for 10 min
Scanner: Epson Stylus Photo RX500

🌸 Petal Frame
(Raw Spring 2018 — Gorky Park: “The Light Between Faces”)
Two women lean in, one young, one older, their smiles soft, their gesture simple: a shared selfie, framed by blossoms.
The phone rises like a quiet offering, not to the world, but to memory.
The film deepens the shadows, but the light is still there — in their eyes, in the way they fit together, in the way spring wraps around them like a second skin.
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A phone lifted. A glance shared. Spring leans in, and the film listens.
Each frame holds not just a face, but the space between — where light, memory, and gesture briefly align.

Technical details:
Russia. Moscow, Gorky Park
Photo taken: 04 May 2018
Camera: Canon EOS 5
Lens: Canon Zoom Lens EF 70–210 mm
Film: Agfa Aviphot Pan 80 (expired)
Developed in: Silberra Ascorol for 10 min
Scanner: Epson Stylus Photo RX500

📱 What the Screen Remembers
(Raw Spring 2018 — Gorky Park: “The Light Between Faces”)
Two figures, close enough to share a frame, closer still to share a silence.
The phone is there — held gently, not posed. Are they capturing the moment, or revisiting one already lived?
We don’t know. But the way they lean in, the way the light touches their hands, the way the film wraps the scene in soft grain — it feels like memory, not performance.
A quiet finale, where the image on the screen might be less important than the act of looking together.
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A phone lifted. A glance shared. Spring leans in, and the film listens.
Each frame holds not just a face, but the space between — where light, memory, and gesture briefly align.

Technical details:
Russia. Moscow, Gorky Park
Photo taken: 04 May 2018
Camera: Canon EOS 5
Lens: Canon Zoom Lens EF 70–210 mm
Film: Agfa Aviphot Pan 80 (expired)
Developed in: Silberra Ascorol for 10 min
Scanner: Epson Stylus Photo RX500

September 14, 2025 at 7:11 PM

Andrew B. Barkhatov

@abbsound.bsky.social

🍭 Cotton Candy Noir (Agfa Aviphot Pan 80)
Raw Spring 2018 — Gorky Park
04 May 2018

#filmphotography #moscowstreet #monochrome #film #blackandwhite #girl #summer #dark #noir #girls #female #believeinfilm #agfaaviphot #agfapan80 #filmphoto #bnw #streetphotography #noiretblanc #bwfilm #documentary

They walk slowly, two girls with cotton candy in hand, as if spring handed them a gift and they’re still deciding whether to eat it or keep it.

The scene should be soft — sunlight, sugar, laughter — but the film has other plans.

Scratches slice through the emulsion like memory scars, and the shadows lean in too close. Even the kiosk behind them whispers in Cyrillic: this is Moscow, and even sweetness here wears a darker coat.

But they don’t mind. They walk on, bright against the grain, like a pop song playing through a dusty speaker.

Technical details:
Russia. Moscow, Gorky Park
Photo taken: 04 May 2018
Camera: Canon EOS 5
Lens: Canon Zoom Lens EF 70–210 mm
Film: Agfa Aviphot Pan 80 (expired)
Developed in: Silberra Ascorol for 10 min
Scanner: Epson Stylus Photo RX500

September 13, 2025 at 11:26 PM

Andrew B. Barkhatov

@abbsound.bsky.social

“No stage, no rules — just rhythm, youth, and open sky.”
Raw Spring 2018 — Gorky Park (Agfa Aviphot Pan 80)

#filmphotography #35mm #blackandwhite #noiretblanc #girls #people #lomography #bw #believeinfilm #agfaaviphot #dark #agfapan80 #filmphoto #BWFilm #documentary #noir #streetphotography #female

“No stage, no rules — just rhythm, youth, and open sky.”
Raw Spring 2018 — Gorky Park (Agfa Aviphot Pan 80)

1️⃣ Pokémon Jam Session

The chords are simple, but the joy is layered. One strums, one sings, one reads — and all three are inside the song.

The hoodies with ears aren’t costumes, they’re declarations: we’re here to play, not just music, but life.
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Intro: Somewhere between spring and summer, three girls sat down on the grass with a guitar, a notebook, and a few soft beanbags. They weren’t performing — they were just being. Music drifted out in fragments, lyrics half‑read, half‑invented, and the park leaned in to listen.

This triptych captures not a concert, but a moment of shared rhythm, where friendship, play, and the season itself tuned into the same frequency.
_
Technical details (all three frames): Russia. Moscow, Gorky Park Photo taken: 04 May 2018 Camera: Canon EOS 5 Lens: Canon Zoom Lens EF 70–210 mm Film: Agfa Aviphot Pan 80 (expired) Developed in: Silberra Ascorol for 10 min Scanner: Epson Stylus Photo RX500

2️⃣ The Pause Between Chords

The guitar rests for a moment, and so do they. Not silence — just the kind of quiet where ideas bloom.

Someone says something funny, someone else hums a line, and the song begins again before it’s even finished ending.
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Intro: Somewhere between spring and summer, three girls sat down on the grass with a guitar, a notebook, and a few soft beanbags. They weren’t performing — they were just being. Music drifted out in fragments, lyrics half‑read, half‑invented, and the park leaned in to listen.

This triptych captures not a concert, but a moment of shared rhythm, where friendship, play, and the season itself tuned into the same frequency.
_
Technical details (all three frames): Russia. Moscow, Gorky Park Photo taken: 04 May 2018 Camera: Canon EOS 5 Lens: Canon Zoom Lens EF 70–210 mm Film: Agfa Aviphot Pan 80 (expired) Developed in: Silberra Ascorol for 10 min Scanner: Epson Stylus Photo RX500

3️⃣ Spring in Their Laughter

The camera pulls back. Now we see the trees, the beanbags, the way the grass folds around their little camp.

They’re not alone — others lounge nearby, but the trio is in their own season.

There’s music, there’s laughter, and there’s that feeling that summer is close enough to touch.
_
Intro: Somewhere between spring and summer, three girls sat down on the grass with a guitar, a notebook, and a few soft beanbags. They weren’t performing — they were just being. Music drifted out in fragments, lyrics half‑read, half‑invented, and the park leaned in to listen.

This triptych captures not a concert, but a moment of shared rhythm, where friendship, play, and the season itself tuned into the same frequency.
_
Technical details (all three frames): Russia. Moscow, Gorky Park Photo taken: 04 May 2018 Camera: Canon EOS 5 Lens: Canon Zoom Lens EF 70–210 mm Film: Agfa Aviphot Pan 80 (expired) Developed in: Silberra Ascorol for 10 min Scanner: Epson Stylus Photo RX500

September 10, 2025 at 1:20 AM

Andrew B. Barkhatov

@abbsound.bsky.social

“The Picnic We Weren’t Invited To” (Agfa Aviphot Pan 80)
Chapter from Raw Spring 2018
04 May 2018

#filmphotography #35mm #blackandwhite #noiretblanc #girls #people #lomography #bw #believeinfilm #agfaaviphot #dark #agfapan80 #filmphoto #woman #BWFilm #documentary #noir #streetphotography #female

🥪 Picnic, or Something Else?
Raw Spring 2018 — Park Life

Two women sit on a blanket in the grass, a bottle and a container between them — the quiet currency of a shared afternoon.

They look toward the camera, not startled, not posing — just acknowledging the presence of another observer.

The branches in the foreground frame them like a secret, as if we’re peeking in on a scene that might be just a picnic… or the prologue to something we’ll never know.

Technical details:
Russia. Moscow, Gorky Park
Photo taken: 04 May 2018
Camera: Canon EOS 5
Lens: Canon Zoom Lens EF 70–210mm
Film: Agfa Aviphot Pan 80 (expired)
Developer: Silberra Ascorol, 10 minutes
Scanner: Epson Stylus Photo RX500

🥪 Caught in the Parkscape
Raw Spring 2018 — Park Life

Under the leaning tree, the blanket is still spread, the bottle still catching the light, but now the park stretches wide around them — paths, grass, and the slow drift of other lives.

They’ve spotted me. It’s not alarm, not quite — more the quick flicker of realizing that their quiet corner isn’t as invisible as it felt.

For a moment, the picnic becomes a stage, the tree a curtain, and I’m the uninvited audience to a play that was never meant to have one.

Technical details:
Russia. Moscow, Gorky Park
Photo taken: 04 May 2018
Camera: Canon EOS 5
Lens: Canon Zoom Lens EF 70–210mm
Film: Agfa Aviphot Pan 80 (expired)
Developer: Silberra Ascorol, 10 minutes
Scanner: Epson Stylus Photo RX500

September 8, 2025 at 6:03 PM

Andrew B. Barkhatov

@abbsound.bsky.social

📷 Lomografik — Before the Hunt
Raw Spring 2018 — Park Life
(featuring Yuri “Lomografik”)

#filmphotography #35mm #blackandwhite #streetportrait #agfaaviphot #agfapan80 #filmphoto #lomography #dark #BWFilm #noiretblanc #streetphotography #documentary #noir #believeinfilm #streetbw #realpeople #bnw

1️⃣ The Pause Before the Hunt

He sits with a vintage camera in his hands — not heavy, but carrying the weight of decades. Metal, glass, and the quiet stubbornness of a machine built in the 70s, still ready to chase light through the streets.

Somewhere in the park, frames are already waiting for him — faces in passing, shadows on stone, a gesture that will vanish if he’s late.

For now, he just studies the old companion, listening to the silence between clicks, the way a hunter listens to the wind.

Intro: In Yuri’s hands, a vintage 1970s camera is more than just a tool. It’s a passport into a slower world, where every frame is hunted down with patience and light is something you earn, not just capture.

This diptych holds two moments from the same day: the quiet before stepping into the streets, and the instant when the hunter himself becomes the one under watch.

Technical details (both frames): Russia. Moscow, Gorky Park Photo taken: 04 May 2018 Camera: Canon EOS 5 Lens: Canon Zoom Lens EF 70–210 mm Film: Agfa Aviphot Pan 80 (expired) Developer: Silberra Ascorol, 10 minutes Scanner: Epson Stylus Photo RX500

$2️⃣ Under Watch From a distance, the bench is just another piece of park furniture, and the man on it — just another visitor. But the cameras in his hands are older than most of the people passing by, and they draw eyes the way a bright coin catches light. The park guard walks past, his gaze lingering a fraction longer than casual. Not hostile, not friendly — just the quiet calculation of someone trained to notice what doesn’t quite fit the everyday pattern. Yuri doesn’t flinch. He’s been here before, in parks, in streets, in that thin space between being invisible and being observed. The hunt will go on — but for a moment, it’s two professionals measuring each other in silence. Technical details (both frames): Russia. Moscow, Gorky Park Photo taken: 04 May 2018 Camera: Canon EOS 5 Lens: Canon Zoom Lens EF 70–210 mm Film: Agfa Aviphot Pan 80 (expired) Developer: Silberra Ascorol, 10 minutes Scanner: Epson Stylus Photo RX500$

September 5, 2025 at 9:48 PM

Andrew B. Barkhatov

@abbsound.bsky.social

🌷 Framing the Bloom (Agfa Aviphot Pan 80)
People in Flowers — Raw Spring 2018

#filmphotography #35mm #blackandwhite #noiretblanc #flowers #people #lomography #bw #believeinfilm #agfaaviphot #agfapan80 #filmphoto #woman #BWFilm #dark #filmstock #noir #streetphotography #summer #documentary #female

She stands in the middle of the tulips as if she’s stepped through a hidden gate into a place where petals listen.

The phone in her hand is just a pretext — the real work is happening in her eyes, in the way her lips move, shaping quiet phrases meant only for the flowers.

Maybe she’s giving them instructions, like a patient photographer with shy models. Maybe she’s telling them a secret so they’ll open just a little wider.

Whatever it is, the smile says she’s getting exactly the shot she wanted — and something more she’ll never post online.

Technical details: Russia. Moscow, Gorky Park Photo taken: 04 May 2018 Camera: Canon EOS 5 Lens: Canon Zoom Lens EF 70–210mm Film: Agfa Aviphot Pan 80 (expired) Developer: Silberra Ascorol, 10 minutes Scanner: Epson Stylus Photo RX500

September 5, 2025 at 11:55 AM

Andrew B. Barkhatov

@abbsound.bsky.social

🌷 People in Flowers (Agfa Aviphot Pan 80)
Chapter from Raw Summer 2017

#filmphotography #35mm #blackandwhite #noiretblanc #flowers #people #lomography #bw #believeinfilm #agfaaviphot #agfapan80 #filmphoto #UrbanWildlife #BWFilm #dark #filmstock #noir #streetphotography #summer #documentary

🌷 Captain of the Tulip Seas
People in Flowers — Raw Summer 2017

She lowers herself into a squat — not the easiest move, but worth it for the perfect shot. Phone in hand, eyes locked on her subject, she’s the captain steering through a calm sea of tulips.

In front of her, the young woman sits dreamily, as if already adrift, her thoughts sailing far beyond the garden’s edge on the gentle waves of white blooms.

One captures the moment, the other drifts inside it. And somewhere between them, the flowers keep their own quiet counsel.

Technical details: Moscow. Gorky Park Camera: Canon EOS 5 Lens: Canon Zoom Lens EF 70–210mm Film: Agfa Aviphot Pan 80 (expired, date unknown) Developer: Silberra Ascorol, 10 minutes Photo taken: 29 July 2017 Scanner: Noritsu LS‑1100

🌷 The Gardener of Pixels
People in Flowers — Raw Summer 2017

He squats low beside the tulips, one hand in the soil, the other holding a phone — half gardener, half archivist.

The flowers don’t care who loves them more, men or women. They lean toward the light all the same, while we lean toward them, each in our own way — to touch, to frame, to remember.

Technical details: Moscow. Gorky Park Camera: Canon EOS 5 Lens: Canon Zoom Lens EF 70–210mm Film: Agfa Aviphot Pan 80 (expired, date unknown) Developer: Silberra Ascorol, 10 minutes Photo taken: 29 July 2017 Scanner: Noritsu LS‑1100

September 4, 2025 at 2:41 AM

Andrew B. Barkhatov

@abbsound.bsky.social

🌷 People in Flowers (Agfa Aviphot Pan 80)
Chapter from Raw Summer 2017

#filmphotography #35mm #blackandwhite #noiretblanc #flowers #streetphotography #summer #documentary #people #lomography #bw #believeinfilm #agfaaviphot #agfapan80 #filmphoto #UrbanWildlife #BWFilm #dark #filmstock #noir

🌷 The Tulip Companions
People in Flowers — Raw Summer 2017
He stands among the blooms, hands busy with a crown of petals, while she kneels low, eyes fixed on the small glowing screen, capturing the garden one frame at a time.

Between them — a quiet understanding: the flowers are not just for looking, they’re for keeping, whether in memory, in pixels, or woven into something you can wear.

The tulips sway in the breeze, white heads nodding like silent witnesses to this small, shared ritual.

Series: People in Flowers
Chapter from Raw Summer 2017

They come to the garden for many reasons. To pose, to capture, to remember. Some weave crowns, some frame shots, some simply sit and let the flowers do the talking.

I watch from a distance, catching the photographers and the photographed, folding them into my own frame — a chain of gazes, a quiet archive of how we love beauty.

Technical details: Moscow. Gorky Park Camera: Canon EOS 5 Lens: Canon Zoom Lens EF 70–210mm Film: Agfa Aviphot Pan 80 (expired, date unknown) Developer: Silberra Ascorol, 10 minutes Photo taken: 29 July 2017 Scanner: Noritsu LS‑1100

🌷 The Flower Crowned
People in Flowers — Raw Summer 2017
He sits among the tulips as if they’ve grown around him, a dark silhouette crowned with petals. One hand props his chin, eyes drifting somewhere far beyond the garden’s edge.

The blooms press close, white, yellow, and pale orange heads forming a living frame around his stillness.

It’s not a pose for the camera — it’s a pause for himself, a moment where the world is reduced to flowers, air, and thought.

Technical details: Moscow. Gorky Park Camera: Canon EOS 5 Lens: Canon Zoom Lens EF 70–210mm Film: Agfa Aviphot Pan 80 (expired, date unknown) Developer: Silberra Ascorol, 10 minutes Photo taken: 29 July 2017 Scanner: Noritsu LS‑1100

🌷 The Flower Crowned — The Lesson
People in Flowers — Raw Summer 2017
The crown of petals is still on his head, but now his hands are busy showing, pointing, framing. She leans closer, eyes following his gestures, as if the tulips themselves are part of the lesson.

It’s not just about where to stand or how to hold the camera — it’s about seeing. About noticing the way light falls between the blooms, how a shadow can make a petal glow, how a moment can be caught before it slips away.

Around them, the garden hums quietly, oblivious to the fact that a new photographer might be blooming right there among the flowers.

Technical details: Moscow. Gorky Park Camera: Canon EOS 5 Lens: Canon Zoom Lens EF 70–210mm Film: Agfa Aviphot Pan 80 (expired, date unknown) Developer: Silberra Ascorol, 10 minutes Photo taken: 29 July 2017 Scanner: Noritsu LS‑1100

August 29, 2025 at 7:23 PM

Andrew B. Barkhatov

@abbsound.bsky.social

🐾 Pavement Royals: Nine Lives in Black & White
Chapter from Raw Summer 2017
(The crown, the scars, the feast — all in ALT)

#StreetPhotography #FilmPhotography #StreetCats #CatPortrait #UrbanWildlife #agfaaviphot #agfapan80 #filmphoto #film #BWFilm #blackandwhite #noiretblanc #35mm #dark #cats #noir

1️⃣ The Alley Gentleman
He sits in the grass, still as a portrait subject, eyes steady, whiskers sharp, wearing the quiet authority of one who owns nothing — and everything. The park is his dining room, his throne room, his hunting ground. Every scar is a medal, every glance a verdict. You don’t adopt him. You earn his company.

Series: “Pavement Royals: Nine Lives in Black & White"
They walk the park like it’s their kingdom. Every bench, every patch of grass, every shadowed corner — theirs. They don’t pose. They don’t ask. They simply exist, wearing their scars like medals and their gaze like a crown.

Technical details: Moscow. Gorky Park Camera: Canon EOS 5 Lens: Canon Zoom Lens EF 70–210mm Film: Agfa Aviphot Pan 80 (expired, date unknown) Developer: Silberra Ascorol, 10 minutes Photo taken: 29 July 2017 Scanner: Noritsu LS-1100

2️⃣ The Alley Gentleman — Side Glance
Same patch of ground, same stripes, same unshakable poise — but now the air feels heavier, the shadows closer. He’s not meeting us head‑on; instead, his gaze slides past the lens, as if something more important just moved in the corner of his kingdom.

The posture is still regal, but the mood has shifted — from confrontation to contemplation, from “look at me” to “you’re lucky to be here.”

Series: “Pavement Royals: Nine Lives in Black & White"
They walk the park like it’s their kingdom. Every bench, every patch of grass, every shadowed corner — theirs. They don’t pose. They don’t ask. They simply exist, wearing their scars like medals and their gaze like a crown.

Technical details: Moscow. Gorky Park Camera: Canon EOS 5 Lens: Canon Zoom Lens EF 70–210mm Film: Agfa Aviphot Pan 80 (expired, date unknown) Developer: Silberra Ascorol, 10 minutes Photo taken: 29 July 2017 Scanner: Noritsu LS-1100

3️⃣ The Alley Gentleman & The Shadow Queen
He sits tall, gaze steady, the same ruler of benches and grass we’ve met before. But now, behind him, she moves — dark as midnight, silent as a whisper.

She doesn’t seek the lens. She’s busy with her own inspection of the realm, nose to the ground, reading scents like royal decrees.

Together, they are balance: light and shadow, presence and absence, two halves of a kingdom that never needed walls.

Series: “Pavement Royals: Nine Lives in Black & White"
They walk the park like it’s their kingdom. Every bench, every patch of grass, every shadowed corner — theirs. They don’t pose. They don’t ask. They simply exist, wearing their scars like medals and their gaze like a crown.

Technical details: Moscow. Gorky Park Camera: Canon EOS 5 Lens: Canon Zoom Lens EF 70–210mm Film: Agfa Aviphot Pan 80 (expired, date unknown) Developer: Silberra Ascorol, 10 minutes Photo taken: 29 July 2017 Scanner: Noritsu LS-1100

4️⃣ The Alley Gentleman & The Shadow Queen — Shared Feast
Two rulers, heads bowed over the same prize. No rivalry, no ceremony — just the quiet truce of hunger. The grass is their tablecloth, the summer air their dining hall.

He eats with the calm of one who knows the food will last. She moves quicker, sharper — as if every meal might be the last before the night hunt.

For a moment, the kingdom is at peace. No need for thrones, no need for crowns — only the sound of teeth on bone, and the unspoken pact of survival.

Series: “Pavement Royals: Nine Lives in Black & White"
They walk the park like it’s their kingdom. Every bench, every patch of grass, every shadowed corner — theirs. They don’t pose. They don’t ask. They simply exist, wearing their scars like medals and their gaze like a crown.

Technical details: Moscow. Gorky Park Camera: Canon EOS 5 Lens: Canon Zoom Lens EF 70–210mm Film: Agfa Aviphot Pan 80 (expired, date unknown) Developer: Silberra Ascorol, 10 minutes Photo taken: 29 July 2017 Scanner: Noritsu LS-1100

August 26, 2025 at 12:08 AM

Andrew B. Barkhatov

@abbsound.bsky.social

“Park, May, You & Me (Unfocused)”
Agfa Aviphot Pan 200 [at ISO100]
May 12, 2019

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Black and white candid photo of two young people seated close together on a wooden terrace in Gorky Park, Moscow. The image captures a fleeting, quiet intimacy — soft focus, sharp silence — framed by early summer light and the low hum of a public space with its long, layered history: from Soviet recreation to student refuge. Slight motion blur and reduced contrast enhance its dreamlike stillness. (May 2019. Camera: Nikon Lite Touch Zoom 120 ED (AF). Film: Agfa Aviphot Pan 200 [shot at ISO100]. Scanner: Noritsu HS-1800.)

June 26, 2025 at 11:31 PM

Andrew B. Barkhatov

@abbsound.bsky.social

“Velvet, Lace & Tourist Cash: Moscow’s Time Travelers”
(Agfa Aviphot Pan 200) May 12, 2019
“When powdered nobles stalk the asphalt for spare change, history becomes performance art.”

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