Series Saint-Petersburg

A large tablet-computer advertisement fills the background; a hooded figure at left presses close to read its text, while a man in a fur hat stands on a low platform at right, his reflection sharing the glass with a passing stranger. Below, dozens of glass jars sit in rows on wooden crates and a pallet, an improvised street stall beneath the ad.

Rendered entirely in dense graphite hatching, deep blacks and smudged greys, with the paper's rough grain left visible throughout. No color intrudes; instead stark tonal contrast separates the polished advertisement from the worn crates below, producing a quiet, melancholic sense of everyday street trade beside slick urban imagery.