When people hide from bad weather behind the glass, they feel allegedly protected. Transparency or semi-transparency of this material creates visual effects which do not need further finishing. People behind the glass are similar to mysterious fishes in an aquarium, and the real life floats by them. The glass, like a barrier, divides people into the observers and the observed ones. Depiction of such situations creates a genre of “observing the observer”

 

"Julia" from a series of "Behind the Glass" St. Petersburg 2008

from a series of "Behind the Glass" St. Petersburg 2008

from a series of "Behind the Glass" Moscow 2011

"Kiss under a palm tree" from a series of "Behind the Glass" Moscow 2009

from a series of "Behind the Glass" Moscow 2008

from a series of "Behind the Glass" Moscow 2010

"Otherworldly" from a series of "Behind the Glass" Moscow 2009

from a series of "Behind the Glass" Moscow 2007

"Time for a smoke" from a series of "Behind the Glass" Moscow 2009

"Ra" from a series of "Behind the Glass" Moscow 2008

from a series of "Behind the Glass" Berlin 2009

"Tic Tac Toe" from a series of "Behind the Glass" Moscow 2009

from a series of "Behind the Glass" Oranienburg 2011

from a series of "Behind the Glass" Moscow 2009

from a series of "Behind the Glass" Lvov 2011

from a series of "Behind the Glass" Moscow 2009

from a series of "Behind the Glass" Moscow 2009

from a series of "Behind the Glass" Moscow 2010

from a series of "Behind the Glass" Moscow 2009

from a series of "Behind the Glass" Moscow 2009

from a series of "Behind the Glass" Moscow 2010

"Waiting" from a series of "Behind the Glass" Moscow 2009

from a series of "Behind the Glass" Moscow 2010

from a series of "Behind the Glass" St. Petersburg 2008

Из серии "За стеклом" Москва 2010

from a series of "Behind the Glass" St. Petersburg 2011

from a series of "Behind the Glass" Moscow 2010

from a series of "Behind the Glass" Moscow 2010

from a series of "Behind the Glass" Moscow 2010

from a series of "Behind the Glass" Moscow 2009

from a series of "Behind the Glass" Moscow 2011

from a series of "Behind the Glass" Moscow 2010

from a series of "Behind the Glass" St. Petersburg 2008

"Beauty Shop" from a series of "Behind the Glass" Moscow November 2007

from a series of "Behind the Glass" Moscow 2009

from a series of "Behind the Glass" Paris 2010

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