In 1987, agnès b. spent five days in Moscow, then the Soviet capital, alongside ELLE journalist Philippe Trétiack. Armed with her analogue Nikon, she photographed the city's everyday life: children, shopkeepers, passersby, faces, and clothing. Born almost spontaneously alongside her ELLE assignment, these black-and-white and colour images capture a curious, attentive gaze on an era just a few years before the Soviet Union's dissolution.
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