The dazzling illumination of the Moscow Metro (PHOTOS)
Even the light fixtures in the capital's subway are often a work of art with a clearly thought-out design that differs from station to station. Let's take a look at the light in the subway through the eyes of photographer Alexandra Slon.
The Moscow Metro is a real underground museum and an endless source of inspiration for creative people. Modern artist Alexandra Slon made a whole photo project dedicated to the lighting in the subway and how it affects the perception of architecture. In her photos, light elements are folded into bizarre, geometric compositions.
Alexandra also divides her works into several sections – which can be used to trace the chronology of the construction of stations and how the lighting solutions changed in them.
1. The 1930s
Krasnye Vorota station
Kropotkinskaya station
Sokolniki station
Sokolniki station
2. The World War II years
Avtozavodskaya station
Novokuznetskaya station
Paveletskaya station
3. The Stalinist Empire style
Arbatskaya station
Kievskaya station
Komsomolskaya station
Kurskaya station
Taganskaya station
4. Underground ‘khrushchyovkas’
VDNKh station
Krasnopresnenskaya station
Oktyabrskaya station
5. Breakthrough of the stagnant era
Babushkinskaya station
Pushkinskaya station
Chertanovskaya station
6. Gorbachev’s minimalism
Orekhovo station
Prazhskaya station
Tretyakovskaya station
7. Luzhkov’s palaces
Maryina Roshcha station
Strogino station
Trubnaya station
Chkalovskaya station
8. Modern records
Vorontsovskaya station
Michurinsky Prospekt station
Pykhtino station
Rizhskaya station
Terekhovo station
The open air ‘Architecture of Light’ photo exhibition by the Committee for Architecture and Urban Planning of the City of Moscow can be viewed along Tverskoy Boulevard in Moscow until December 10, 2023 and is free of charge.