I love crowds because there is always something going on. In the cycle of faces, you can find your stories and use them to reveal a topic that interests you. For many, the crowd is a negative symbol as it is associated with unbridled dark energy, indomitable, and unpredictable. I was interested in exploring this energy through photography during the Football World Cup in Moscow in 2018. I shot late at night because at these hours and in this contrasting light, our sensations are heightened, and people fall outside their limits.

On the one hand, the crowd implies some kind of mass behavior, say, jubilation or protest. But, on the other hand, being in the crowd, each of us is in our own little capsule. Sooner or later, falling out of the general chaos, a person appears in the crowd as an independent unit. The crowd can tire a person, liberate them, allow them to dress in a way that they would never dress, and make them do what they would not do outside the crowd. This is its charm and its danger.