LEO MILANO
Stairway down into an underpass, a handrail against an orange-lit wall.

Photography

Passage

Переход

Moscow underpasses at night

Moscow's underground passages as liminal spaces: places made for passing through, not for staying.

Year
2026
Role
Photography
Tools
Sony a6400
Context
Personal project, June 2026

The project explores underground passages in Moscow as liminal spaces of the urban environment. These places aren't made for staying, but passing through, being in between.

In this betweenness I'm most drawn to the emptiness, quietness, flickering artificial light and monotonous hum of fluorescent tubes. In places like this the sense of time loosens: attention shifts from the destination to the process of moving itself.

In the photographs an underground passage appears not only as an architectural object, but also as a mental state: enclosed, detached, almost outside of time.

01/13 A symmetrical corridor of orange panels and wall lamps.
02/13 The same corridor, darker; a figure on the stairs at the far end.
03/13 A wide underground hall with a staircase down the middle under strip lights.
04/13 A low concrete tunnel, ceiling lamps leading to a dark opening.
05/13 An almost black passage, the wet floor reflecting the lights.
06/13 A glass shopfront wall along a long dark passage.
07/13 A granite pillar filling the centre of the frame.
08/13 A long tunnel vanishing towards a blue exit.
09/13 A tiled corridor with a red ticket machine on the right.
10/13 A wide underpass with kiosks and a lit sign.
11/13 A person’s shadow and reflection on polished granite, grainy.
12/13 A colonnade of tiled pillars curving away under bright lamps.
13/13 A dark underpass opening onto brightly lit stairs.