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MOSCOW, RUSSIA

Black and slightly creepy is the dress code for “goth night” at Relax, a mainstay of Moscow’s metal music scene. Music by Russian metal bands such as Melancholy and Forgive-Me-Not keeps patrons agreeably morbid.

To reveal the complexity of the scene, I zoomed my strobe and pointed it to the left, drawing the embracing couple out of the darkness.

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