Once I met an old artist in the street, he was in his usual shabby jacket with fringes at the bottom, dragging heavy suitcase with sketches and looking thoughtful. When I asked him, what was going on, he replied: “It is always the same – too much of work and too little or nothing of [...]
Saturday visit. It was cold windy morning. I made snapshot of this group near Westbahnhof. May be I idealize family relationships being deprived of them. You love man so much that it hurts and when he betrays you- you want to die. But time goes on, and soon you can not recollect his name. When [...]
Terrible bang at the door came after midnight. Since it was bars area, I reached for rolling pin andthen shut open the door. Russian woman Natasha stood there together with her husband – short man with disproportional big hands. Natasha looked as child who broke vase playing football in living room and tried to postpone [...]
“People now are too practical. All they think about is earning money and then sleeping with a girl for free, and then earning more money” Wei Hui, author of bestseller “Shanghai baby” Once upon time being enterprising Moscow reporter I would write sketches for rubric journalist changes profession. It is vital to know intimately what [...]
Somewhere near main square I spotted her, she was waiting for somebody, nervously looking around and tugging her bag – dark haired girl in dress with open shoulders. I knew at once what she felt. Perhaps, private date, when person under question promised, but has not come. By sadness and special air of vulnerability, I [...]