Artemy Lebedev Travel

Artemy's photos of Pitcairn are great! http://tema.ru/eng/travel/pitcairn/

If you liked the article, you'll probably enjoy travel notes by Artemy Lebedev who is just two countries behind: http://tema.ru/eng/travel/countries/ One country he had hard time getting into is Turkmenistan: http://tema.ru/eng/travel/turkmenistan-2/ The visas are declined and the search form on the airline site is actually a jpg. The North Korea travel notes are a good read as well: http://tema.ru/eng/travel/north-korea/

https://www.tema.ru/travel/north-korea-1/ Artemy Lebedev, a known Russian web designer, visited North Korea and posted his notes with pictures (in Russian, should not be an obstacle these days). There are three more sections with the selector below.

If you're interested in abandoned buildings and other artistic captures of the darker side of society, check out Artemy Lebedev - a Russian traveller who's been to pretty much everywhere in the world. https://www.tema.ru/eng/travel/

Here you go https://www.tema.ru/eng/travel/ He also has a youtube (in russian) where he publishes the newer content.

That guy comes off as an asshole: https://www.tema.ru/eng/travel/kiev.2015.05/

A few links from Russian fotoblog: http://www.tema.ru/travel/syria-1/ http://www.tema.ru/travel/syria-2/ http://www.tema.ru/travel/syria-3/

Phone charging kiosks http://www.tema.ru/travel/uganda/4F2C3936.jpg

If you are interested in relatively fresh photos of everyday Somali, you could look at reports of famous Russian traveller and designer Artemiy Lebedev: http://tema.ru/travel/somaliland-1/ http://tema.ru/travel/somaliland-2/ http://tema.ru/travel/somaliland-3/ http://tema.ru/travel/somalia/ English versions of this reports are available, switcher is in top right corner.

Pre-computer, pre-plastic industrial interfaces generally look beautiful. You can see actual graphic design that went in. See for example http://www.tema.ru/travel/dubna.2009/ near the bottom of page.

FWIW, here's the Russian designer who travelled to 180+ countries and took tons of photos during the process: http://www.tema.ru/travel/ I've read he also has a bet with another Russian guy to the tune of $100k on who will visit all the countries first.

Here is a set of articles from 2006 written by the founder of one of the leading design studios in Russia - artlebedev.ru. The read is very interesting, but unfortunately only available in Russian. Part 1 (general): http://www.tema.ru/travel/north-korea-1/ Part 2 (military) : http://www.tema.ru/travel/north-korea-2/ Part 3 (culture): http://www.tema.ru/travel/north-korea-3/ Part 4 (Roads & transport): http://www.tema.ru/travel/north-korea-3/

another rare photoset has been posted in a older hn-thread (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2152223) the original link doesnt work anymore, but i found the same photo's on a russian site http://tema.ru/travel/north-korea-1/

Obligatory Artemiy Lebedev's photo report on NK (unfortunately, comments in Russian only): http://www.tema.ru/travel/north-korea-1/ http://www.tema.ru/travel/north-korea-2/ http://www.tema.ru/travel/north-korea-3/ http://www.tema.ru/travel/north-korea-4/

http://tema.ru/travel/north-korea-1/ http://tema.ru/travel/north-korea-2/ ... 5 parts

Dog breeds: https://www.tema.ru/crea-gif/dogs.html

There's a site run by some well-travelled Russian photo-blogger that I once ended up on thanks to a link someone posted on HN. Good stuff. Takes a while to get used to the author's obsession with traffic signs and trash cans, but it's good. Here's part one of his trip to this region: http://tema.ru/eng/travel/yakutetnoexp-1/ The site's hard to navigate. You may have to hit "english" at the top right (assuming you don't want the Russian version) since it may not retain language state through links. The "veni, vidi" link on the top left will take you back to the master list, so you can find the other parts of the trip if you're interested. Photos with little squares on the top right are actually little galleries. Click the other squares to change the image. Unrelated insights gained from the site: * The smaller touristy Pacific islands are typically covered in garbage. * Former British colonies are usually OK, former French colonies are usually awful. * Ethiopia looks like a pretty cool place to visit.