“There’s a bus stop I want to photograph.” This may sound like a parody of an esoteric festival film, but Canadian Christopher Herwig’s photography project is entirely in earnest, and likely you will be won over by his passion for this unusual subject within the first five minutes. Soviet architecture of the 1960s and 70s was by and large utilitarian, regimented, and mass-produced. Yet the bus stops Herwig discovers on his journeys criss-crossing the vast former Soviet Bloc are something else entirely: whimsical, eccentric, flamboyantly artistic, audacious, colourful. They speak of individualism and locality, concepts anathema to the Communist doctrine. Herwig wants to know how this came to pass and tracks down some of the original unsung designers, but above all he wants to capture these exceptional roadside way stations on film before they disappear.

Every day, Paris’ six railway stations welcome over 3,000 trains and more than a million travelers c...

NUDE explores perceptions of nudity in art by chronicling the creative process of photographer David...

Look at Life was a regular series of short documentary films produced between 1959 and 1969 by the S...

Documentary examining Stalin's Gulag. Between the October Revolution and Stalin's death in 1953, mil...

Anders Petersen is one of Europe's leading still photographers. A unique performer on the internati...

Ninety-year-old sound artist and comedian Henry “Sandy” Jacobs lives a quirky existence at the end o...

Short film made from photographs taken by anthropologist and photojournalist Rogério Ferrari in Pale...

Mozambique 1974 - the European name of the capital Lourenço Marques was deleted and replaced by Mapu...

Artist Tom Phillips walks us through his ongoing project to photograph the same 20 London locations ...

Look at Life was a regular series of short documentary films produced between 1959 and 1969 by the S...

A look at traffic controls in West Germany and their autobahns and how Britain can learn as they bui...

Ferdinand de Lesseps, known as “The Great Frenchman”, will embark in the greatest adventure of his l...
Andrzej Różycki's film is not only a portrait of Zofia Rydet, a female artist, and her working metho...

Russia is grappling with a critical issue: they have become the country with the most at large seria...

Berlin’s brutalist heritage is under fire. The city’s powerful Charité hospital wants to destroy a b...

Since World War II North Americans have invested much of their newfound wealth in suburbia. It has p...

Portrait of a Russian village near Kaliningrad and its multiethnic inhabitants.

The story of Russian writer and Soviet dissident Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918-2008) and his masterpi...