This was taken at a match between Spartak and CSKA, two of the major football clubs in the city. “Those are the biggest rivals in Moscow,” says Boogie. “So their hooligans, their fans, they hate each other. This is one of the Sparta hooligans.”
“That was during my first trip to Moscow,” says Boogie. “I saw [the man] with his shirt on, and I noticed his tattoo. I approached the guy, and he took his shirt off and started showing us his prison tatoos. From what I remember, he spent 30 years in prison. But don’t take my word for that — memories are weird.”
“It says Spartak on his arm,” says Boogie, referring to the football club. “That’s a boxing coach from one of the boxing gyms.”
“Archetecture is just amazing in Moscow,” says Boogie. “It’s just this brutalist, socialist architecture. I love it. I could just do a book of these buildings.”
“I don’t know [who this is,]” says Boogie. “Just wearing a uniform, I had to shoot it. He was looking at me like, ‘What the hell are you doing?’ I just couldn’t miss it.”
“It was in a train station in the suburbs,” says the photographer. “I don’t have any background stories, but again I couldn’t miss it.”
Boogie remembers this as a boxer training at a boxing gym.
“This is just a stree scene,” remembers Boogie. “Their hairstyles — the way they’re dressed, I love it.”
“Those are the torpedo Moscow fans,” says Boogie. “It’s like a Torbedo clubhouse. In Europe, soccer is huge. These rival fans, they’re [always] fighting each other.”
“That’s a cutout, you put your face to take a picture,” says Boogie. “It was in one of the bus stations in Moscow. It’s a Russian soldier in Crimea. People ask me about it — for me it’s so obvious what it is — but people don’t get it.”
“That building is so good,” says Boogie. “I don’t know where it is, a friend of mine took me there. These circular buildings were built for the Olympics.” The photographer pauses to Google the details. “The 1980 summer Olympics in Moscow. What I heard was these buildings were built to be the five rings of the Olympic sign, but then they ended up building just three of them. I got on one of the rooftops nearby — you cannot shoot it otherwise, it’s impossible. This was the perfect view.”