ARCHITEKTUR UND FILM: Soviet Bus Stops

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ARCHITECTURAL PHOTOGRAPHY

With a new season of the "Architecture and Film" series, the NRW Chamber of Architects and the Film Museum of the state capital Düsseldorf are focusing on architectural photography.

Soviet Bus Stops

The architecture in the countries of the former Soviet Union is diverse. Mostly unnoticed are utility buildings such as bus stops. However, it was precisely these that developed a surprising diversity on the territory of the Soviet Union, reflecting the local artistic freedom in remote places and the many regional cultures in this vast area. Canadian photographer Christopher Herwig traveled over 50,000 km through the 15 countries of the former USSR to follow the traces of the bus stops.

Armenia: In the sights of Ursula Schulz-Dornburg

The German artist Ursula Schulz-Dornburg (*1938; Becher Prize 2025), daughter of a sculptor and an architect, traveled to Armenia several times between 1997 and 2002. Her analog photo series "In Transit" shows people in places of persistent, repeated waiting. The anachronistic bus stops seem like small islands of perseverance in the middle of a "geopoetic" no man's land. The Russian-French director Lisa Alissova (*1979) shot this illuminating travel documentary for the television channel Arte