“I feel really connected to Moscow, but I also still feel a little bit like a tourist,” Sasha Arutyunova said. Ms. Arutyunova, who lives in Brooklyn, was born in Moscow in 1988, a few years before the Soviet Union collapsed and during an era when Levi’s were still a coveted item in the country. She moved to Florida with her mother when she was 6 years old.

For the last eight years, Ms. Arutyunova has worked on a personal project focusing on her family members in Russia. “I spend most of my time photographing interiors and images of my family’s intimate moments in spaces that I know really well,” she said.

When it came to capturing street style, she said, “I didn’t want to deviate too much from the way that I typically shoot, so I was trying to think, ‘What is the environment and how do people fit into it?’”

Over three trips to Russia, one of them on an assignment for OneBeat, a nonprofit that brings together musicians and dancers, she photographed people outside and inside of subway stations, in parks, public squares and around monuments in Moscow and Kazan, the capital of the Republic of Tatarstan in central Russia.