Over the course of 12 years, photographer Christopher Herwig traveled more than 18,000 miles around Eastern Europe to photograph the incredible, brutalist, experimental, and downright bizarre bus stops built during the Communist era. He compiled the results into a new book titled Soviet Bus Stops.





"I'd never seen such a variety of creative expression applied to a public structures before," Herwig told Vantage. "The designers pushed the limits of their imaginations. They did not hold back and sometimes, maybe, even they went too far…These bus stops are less about the Soviet Union as a whole and more about the local regions and individual artists … people who were often creatively oppressed."





Soviet Bus Stops (Amazon)











