One Week in Moscow is a collaborative charity project raising money for Diabetes UK. 

 

On the 8th February this year Gabriella Rizzello and Murray Ballard went to Russia with the intention of travelling around the Central Region for one month. They planned to make a photography project about their journey, but in the early hours of February 15th they had a phone call from home to say Gabriella's mother had been rushed to hospital after suffering a cardiac arrest. Within 8 hours they were by her bedside, but sadly she never regained consciousness.

 

Unsurprisingly, Gabriella has found the sudden and unexpected loss of her mother very difficult to come to terms with, but out of something so tragic comes a real and sincere motivation to do something positive.

 

Gabriella's mother, Sarah-Jane, suffered from Type 1 diabetes and it was complications of this condition that caused her untimely death. She was diagnosed with diabetes on her 24th birthday, after returning from Damascus, where she had been Dj-ing with the London Town Disc Jockeys.

 

Gabriella and Murray have self-published a book called One Week In Moscow, which is being sold to raise money for Diabetes UK. Designed by Connie Dickson, it is a photographic diary of their week in Moscow prior to coming home. A combination of landscapes, interiors, still lifes and street scenes, the pictures are shot in a mixture of formats from black and white 35mm to large-format colour photographs.

 

For more information and to purchase the book visit - www.oneweekinmoscow.com