FOREIGNER IN A FOREIGN LAND

I'm an international drifter born in Russian Karelia before the fall of the evil empire who lived in Finland, Hong Kong, China and atm based in Batumi, Georgia. A passionate tradtional black and white and slide film photographer, printer and artist. This blog is dedicated to living a productive life while on a budget. I post mostly phone photography and some thoughts here plus lifelong interests. 

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Absolute gold of a video - a scene from a movie I don’t know, it is an awesome recording of an early Japanese hardocre punk era, with a band called Lip Cream, performing on of their songs but another band’s vocalist, Chitose is on vocals. She was with The Comes, another legendary J-punk band of the era. It is a precious upload from a Japanese user! 

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Boni-gorodoki, a district of Batumi

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Some phone street shots from Batumi, Adjara, Georgia

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Raw video by Redmi Note 8T, unedited

Batumi working class area on a rainy afternoon

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A small selection of phone snaps I took while riding Hong Kong MTR in 2017-2018. The ones I still like. They never became part of any photo project, just snapping around tired people of Hong Kong.

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Tight crops

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Two vintage Pobeda cars, the USSR relict in Batumi, somewhere around Pushkin street. 

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The contrast of new architecture (Mariott hotel) and older soviet blocks, Batumi

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Georgian style soviet blocks, so near each other but with a space between them where one person can fit through. I’ve seen this only in Batumi, out of all places I’ve ben to and lived. 

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Ghoul

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Legendary

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The beginning of Agmashenebeli district, Batumi

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Enjoying a bit of classic Swedish punk, give it to me any day. Not as fantastic as Puke, not as insane as Anti-Cimex but another scandinavian gem from the eighties. 

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batumi suburban sea side area. Makhinjauri

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Urban shots of Batumi on a sunny day. It is edited with Snapseed except for one which was edited on a laptop via ACDsee 9.0 - I had to remove that weird cyan tone that appears between overexposed area and a proper blue sky. It's a common Xiaomi phone cameras issue.

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Batumi on a sunny day, photos edited to resemble expired slide film, scanned by a cheap scanner. For an aquired taste 

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Colder Snapseed edit on a light & shadow photo in central Batumi