An administrator in a theatre based in Kolomenskoye , Moscow. “In western Europe everything is so neatly defined, so specific,” says Herfort. “A waiting room is a waiting room, an office is an office. In Russia, in contrast, rooms are open to interpretation, many-layered and not so prettified. And I also noticed that there seem to be many more people just sitting around in them. None of them seems at first sight to know what they are doing there. I tried to integrate people like that into my pictures”