• Front cover of “Soviet Transport” by Ai Hoshino, Tokyo Kirara; softcover, 120 pp, 21 × 15 cm, Japanese/English.
  • Back cover of “Soviet Transport” by Ai Hoshino (Tokyo Kirara); softcover photobook, 120 pages, 21 × 15 cm, Japanese/English.
  • Softcover spine close-up; Soviet Transport.
  • Preface spread with Japanese and English text introducing Ai Hoshino’s project on abandoned transport across former Soviet regions.
  • Interior spread: rusted freight cars and overgrown tracks in a derelict rail yard.
  • Interior spread: weathered cable-car tower with a rusted gondola suspended over trees.
  • Spread opening “Kyrgyzstan” chapter with aerial rows of colorful buses at a depot.
  • soviet-transport-ai-hoshino-aerial-railway-depot-sleeping-cars
  • Interior spread: overgrown roller coaster and ferris wheel in a deserted amusement park.
  • Interior spread: beached, rusting ships in a desert landscape; wide view of hulls on sand.
  • Interior spread: industrial scene with Cyrillic warning signs beside a rusted ship hull and metal structure.
  • Aerial view of derelict Soviet tanks and armored vehicles arranged in rows at a scrapyard; from Soviet Transport by Ai Hoshino.
  • Beached, rusting ship hull in a barren desert landscape under a cloudy sky—abandoned vessel documented in Soviet Transport.
  • Damaged Soviet military aircraft with torn control surfaces and faded RF markings, photographed in situ for Soviet Transport.
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Soviet Transport

Soviet Transport – Hoshino Ai – Softcover

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A compact photobook by Ai Hoshino cataloguing abandoned transport relics across the former Soviet sphere—cable cars, trains, planes, ships, tanks, and trucks—shot in Lithuania, Ukraine, Georgia, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan.

Softcover, 21.0 x 15.0 cm, 0.0 kg , 120 pages
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Description

About the Book

“Soviet Transport” follows Japanese photographer Ai Hoshino through the post-Soviet landscape to document vehicles and transit infrastructure left behind after the fall of a vast socialist state. Working across Lithuania, Ukraine, Georgia, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan, Hoshino records cable cars, Ferris wheels, automobiles, rail lines, aircraft, ships, tanks, and trucks at rest—mute artifacts of industry and ideology.

The photographs emphasise material detail and site context rather than nostalgia, forming a clear typology of abandoned transport and industrial archaeology. The series treats each object as a final station: a precise record before disappearance.

Compact and accessible, the book is printed in colour with Japanese/English text and functions as both documentary fieldwork and visual index of the infrastructure that once connected the Soviet Union.

Softcover, 21.0 x 15.0 cm, 0.0 kg, 120 pages, English/Japanese
ISBN: 9784903883670

About the Author

Ai Hoshino is a Japanese photographer whose work focuses on material culture, infrastructure, and the traces of political history in everyday space. Hoshino’s projects often map typologies—vehicles, buildings, and tools—through restrained, descriptive images that prioritise place and condition over spectacle. Soviet Transport extends this practice to the former Soviet sphere, combining documentary clarity with an archival approach to industrial ruins and post-Soviet environments.

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Publisher / Manufacturer: Tokyo Kirara
Country of origin: Japan
Website: https://www.tokyokirara.com

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