Seeing through foreign eyes

Sunday, October 31, 2004 | 12:00 a.m. CDT; updated 2:55 p.m. CDT, Tuesday, July 22, 2008
BY Photos and words Valentina Petrova

As a newcomer, my desire to preserve and share my first impressions of a new place made me assemble this series of photographs of sites around Columbia. In an attempt to portray the nature of town, I wandered between the real and surreal, objective and subjective, architectural and imaginative. I wanted to capture the angles, shadows and colors that might go unnoticed by those more familiar with the sites.

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The reflection of Buchroeder’s clock on the

window of the Pasta Factory on Broadway.

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Corridor

connecting streets, located between India's House restaurant and Van Matre and Harrison Law offices, at the intersection of Broadway and Hitt Street.

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A reflection of the Seventh Street on a garage mirror, next to the Columbia Police Department.

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A look into the corridor between

the Water and Light Department and the Police

Department on Seventh Street.

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A view of the Jesse Hall dome and the waxing crescent moon facing southwest.

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