Saturday, March 7, 2009

Past into Present

Pictures from The Leningrad Blockade in Russia. From 1941-1944.

"During nine hundred (!) days a few million people city of Leningrad suffered from cold and hunger, being deprived of almost all supplies of food and fuel. Many thousands died, those who survived remember this not very willingly. The situation with food was so heavy, no food was sold/distributed among people except a few grams (not even tens or hundred grams) of bread, and not each day, that people had to eat stuff that they would never eat in normal life, like making soups of leather boots (because leather is of animal origin) or boiling the wallpaper because the glue with which they were attached to walls contained a bit of organic stuff. Of course many occasions of cannibalism occurred."

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I would really like the try to make photos like these of Columbus. although they won't be that emotional.. I still think it's still interesting.