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Introduction
My first few months in Moscow were a very dark road, plagued with the usual battles and challenges facing a newcomer to a foreign city. In the main part, it was an overwhelming and unhappy time. It may sound melodramatic, but my passion for taking photographs truly gave me new strength to overcome my feelings of misery and frustration. Slowly, through the lens, I began to see Moscow, and my life here, in a totally different light. It has since become a place of fascination and hidden gems that continually surprise, delight, appeal, anger, sadden, amuse.
When looking at my pictures I am sometimes taken aback by the surge of pleasure they give me. Not because I took them — but because they tell a story; a story of how life can pleasantly surprise us at the most unexpected moment; a story about Moscow: that it is continually changing and evolving, that it is, in a sense, a privilege to be living here; and a message: that if, from time to time we stop and look along and around the paths we travel, we are bound to find something that makes us smile.
Conclusively, there is a saying: “a picture says a thousand words”. With that in mind, I hope you too will find your Moscow story amongst the broad canvass of these pictures, and that they will bring you pleasure.
Henrietta Challinor
Moscow, October 2009
