A seriously heavy atmosphere of doom and hopelessness dwells inside the catacombs of former communist mines. It’s located near the city of Kyshtym, Chelyabinsk region, Russia.
Today it’s a paradise for bats and weird lichen and fungus growth, with precarious seismic and flood situation – but but photographer found a way inside and (after taking haunting pictures) started making a “Fire Show”, turning the thick darkness into fiery magical “light painting”.
“All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle”
Saint Francis of Assisi, Italian monk & saint (1181 – 1226)
The entry to this underground wonder-world looks forbidding enough: