🇱🇻🇱🇹 Soviet era mosaics and murals left at long-abandoned locations across Latvia and Lithuania.
Oh, and these are all shot on 35mm film on a 1970s USSR camera. Developed by me at home in my "darkroom" (bathroom, at night 😂)
Check out the last image in this post for a photo of the camera in action 💙
Full gallery - https://www.obsidianurbexphotography.com/blog/kodak-ektar-35mm-review-photos/
#Latvia #Lithuania #FilmPhotography #History #Urbex #UrbanExploration #Soviet #USSR #Photography
Every collapsed slave economy leaves behind commemorative mosaics...
Mosaics as a particular art form in repressive societies are fascinating.
https://www.dosseproject.com/art-in-chains/
https://romanmosaicworkshops.medium.com/the-hidden-mastery-in-roman-mosaics-art-through-labour-977e7d2686a7
https://www.dailysabah.com/arts/mosaic-made-by-freed-slave-to-thank-god-found-in-turkeys-hatay/news
https://brewminate.com/a-bitter-chain-reflections-on-slavery-in-ancient-rome/
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Abolition_of_Slavery_mosaic.jpg
https://www.the-tls.com/regular-features/mary-beard-a-dons-life/the-enslaved-of-pompeii-blog-post-mary-beard
https://medium.com/@tazwellsolomon/the-hidden-history-of-slavery-why-schools-ignore-the-ottoman-atrocity-64ce0af574ce
https://www.nytimes.com/1957/06/16/archives/soviet-slaves.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_Russia
https://www.houstoniamag.com/arts-and-culture/2021/02/elements-of-change-pillars-at-emancipation-park
https://www.imperiumromanum.edu.pl/en/curiosities/junius-slave-from-mosaic/