Moscow Terminus

Bruce Gilden's Moscow Terminus is an unpublished dispatch from Komsomolskaya Square, the frenetic three-station plaza where Moscow's rail lines converge, rendered in the photographer's signature close, flash-lit street style.

The pictures move through the commuters, hustlers, and travelers gathered around Yaroslavsky Station, terminus of the Trans-Siberian Railway, and its neighboring terminals, catching faces mid-startle in the flash's sudden light. Dashwood Books published the project in New York in December 2014 as a 52-page softcover, in a first edition of 1000 copies, alongside a companion poster limited to 150.

Gilden built his reputation on unflinching, close-range flash photography of New York street life beginning in the 1980s and has carried that method to subjects abroad as a longtime Magnum photographer. Moscow Terminus extends that practice to a foreign transit hub, joining other works such as Facing New York and Haiti in his ongoing record of cities under pressure.