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Madis Puuraid
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Fragments of Estonia’s unfolding story
Mainly architecture and cityscapes
Captured on DSLR and 35mm
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Resting Twilight

📷 Pelguranna (Stroomi beach)

#tallinn #minimalist #urbanlandscape #photography
A still winter shoreline captures the quiet moment before nightfall. Reflections of bare trees and distant apartment blocks soften across the calm water, turning Stroomi Beach into a muted mirror. In monochrome, the scene becomes a study in quiet, texture, and the gentle melancholy of dusk by the Baltic Sea.
December 6, 2025 at 5:24 AM
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Going Vertical

📷 Ferry port

#estonia #eestikunst #industrial #urbanlandscape #modern #architecture #photography
A misty autumn calm settles over Tallinn’s ferry port, where steel walkways and dock structures stand in sharp contrast to the skyline fading into cloud. The softened high-rises and still water create a quiet moment of pause, capturing the city in a fleeting balance between industry and atmosphere.
December 5, 2025 at 3:16 AM
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Between Timber and Wilderness

📷 Pelgulinn

#tallinn #modern #urbanlandscape #timber #architecture #photography
The first photograph leads the viewer into the bordering forest. Tall trunks and dense undergrowth frame the gymnasium’s façade, which appears partially absorbed by leaves and shadows. In this setting, the building feels like an extension of the woodland, its rhythmic timber patterns echoing the vertical lines of the trees. he second photograph shifts into the school’s cultivated courtyard: raised planters, young trees, and a glass pavilion arranged in a measured, carefully maintained environment. Light sweeps through the geometric grids of the façade, highlighting the interplay between natural growth and intentional design.
December 3, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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Where Industry Meets the City

📷 Rotermann Quarter

#tallinn #historic #industrial #urbanlandscape #architecture #photography
This photograph shows the distinctive brick façade of the Rotermann district, marked by its historic industrial anchors and clean geometric structure. The central entrance leads into a narrow passageway between restored buildings. A single person near the doorway provides scale and highlights the mix of old industrial architecture with contemporary urban use. The black-and-white treatment emphasizes the building’s textures and orderly patterns.
December 2, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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Stone and Light

📷 Old Town

#tallinn #medieval #urbanlandscape #architecture #photography
A dramatic monochrome view where the bright spire of Oleviste Church rises behind shadowed medieval towers. Light and darkness carve out textures in the ancient stone, guiding the eye from a quiet garden foreground to the soaring silhouette above.
December 1, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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Night Walker

📷 Tõnismäe

#estonia #historic #architecture #photography
This photo, taken near the National Library of Estonia in Tallinn, highlights the very rainy weather. The wet pavement reflects the street and building lights, showing the intensity of the rainfall. A hooded pedestrian moves through the scene, and the hazy glow around the lights indicates heavy moisture in the air. It’s a clear, simple snapshot of a very rainy night in the city.
November 29, 2025 at 8:25 AM
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Contrasts

📷 Kopli street

#tallinn #historic #urbanlandscape #architecture #photography
Early morning Kopli tram moves through while the church towers of Tallinn’s Old Town stand in the background. This scene shows the contrast between a modern residential district and the historic city center, captured in a simple black-and-white moment.
November 27, 2025 at 4:39 AM
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Hotel Tallinnfornia

📷 City centre

#tallinn #urbanlandscape #architecture #photography
A rainy street in central Tallinn frames the familiar silhouette of Hotel Viru in the distance. The wet pavement and blurred details give it a clean, documentary look of everyday city life.
November 25, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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Start of Day

📷 Telliskivi

#tallinn #historic #industrialarchitecture #modern #urbanlandscape #photography
The photo captures a quiet morning in the Telliskivi creative district. Soft early light falls on a tall, narrow building that stands centered in the frame, its bright facade contrasting with the darker foreground. Long-exposure clouds stretch across the sky, adding a sense of slow movement to an otherwise still urban scene.
November 23, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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End of Day

📷 Paavli

#tallinn #historic #industrialarchitecture #photography
The photo shows Paavli Quarter at sunset. Low evening light highlights the building fronts and the wet ground, while a tall brick chimney stands sharply against the sky. The long exposure softens the clouds and emphasizes the still, industrial mood.
November 23, 2025 at 5:00 AM
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Always Listen to Your Mother

📷 Kopli

#estonia #tallinn #abonded #urban #landscape #photography
These are among the last original wooden barrack-type houses of Kopli Lines, once part of a large workers’ settlement built in the early 20th century. Today the buildings stand abandoned and close to collapse. In the absence of people, wildlife has moved in. A fox family now uses the overgrown yards and empty structures as shelter. The scene reflects the final stage of these historic barracks before redevelopment replaces them.
November 21, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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City of Two Faces

📷 Juhkentali

#estonia #tallinn #historical #architecture #modern #urban #landscape #photography
A black-and-white photograph where an old building meet the sharp vertical lines of a modern high-rise. A rain-darkened street curves in the foreground, with a few solitary pedestrians along its edge. The image highlights the meeting of eras in Tallinn’s Juhkentali district — the fragile old and the austere new captured in a single frame.
November 20, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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Where the Towers Fade

📷 Old town

#estonia #tallinn #medieval #urban #landscape #historical #architecture #photography
his black-and-white photograph shows a foggy autumn view of Tallinn’s Old Town. Several medieval stone towers with pointed roofs are visible in the foreground, along with tightly packed historic buildings. Bare trees indicate the late-autumn season. In the background, the tall church spire fades into the fog, reducing visibility and giving the cityscape a muted, soft look. The image documents the characteristic architecture and atmosphere of Tallinn during colder months.
November 18, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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Shade and Shadows

📷 Ülemiste

#estonia #tallinn #modern #minimalist #urban #landscape #architecture #photography
A large umbrella sculpture installed in Ülemiste City, Tallinn. Positioned in an open plaza surrounded by modern office buildings, it functions as a notable urban landmark and visual point of interest in the area. Photograph by Madis Puuraid Tallinn, Estonia - 2025
November 17, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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The Curve

📷 Sitsi

#estonia #tallinn #historical #urban #landcape #wooden #architecture #photography
A nighttime view of Sitsi Street in Tallinn, where original wooden houses from the former manufacturing era still stand in their authentic form. These historic homes remain lived-in and well - kept, forming a contrast with the newer apartment buildings in the distance. The photo documents a rare part of the city where everyday life continues inside structures that have survived from earlier industrial times.
November 16, 2025 at 5:31 AM
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Thresholds

📷 Juhkentali

#estonia #tallinn #reflections #urban #landscape #modern #architecture #photography
A lone figure crosses a desolate, puddled path framed by decaying wooden walls and worn concrete, while a sleek glass building rises sharply behind them. The contrast between rough, aging textures and modern transparency captures a city caught between past and present - an urban landscape in quiet transition. Photograph by Madis Puuraid Tallinn, Estonia - 2025
November 15, 2025 at 6:13 AM
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Quiet Moment Between

📷 Skoone Bastion

#estonia #tallinn #historical #urban #landscape #photography
A autumn view of a park bench on the slope of Skoone Bastion. The bare trees and scattered leaves show the area in late autumn, while a blurred industrial structure appears in the background. The image highlights the everyday, quiet atmosphere of this historic green space in central Tallinn. Photograph by Madis Puuraid Tallinn, Estonia - 2025
November 14, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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The Bridge

📷 Haabersti

#estonia #tallinn #urban #landscape #photography
The image shows Haabersti’s modern high-rises under an elevated road at dusk. Strong contrasts between light and shadow highlight the area’s urban structure and quiet atmosphere.
November 13, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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Entrance to the Underworld

📷 Linnahall

#estonia #tallinn #brutalism #urban #landscape #architecture #photography
This black and white photograph depicts an aged service door within the geometric facade of Linnahall. The composition emphasizes symmetry, surface texture, and the quiet tension between decay and order - a study in post-Soviet architectural austerity.
November 11, 2025 at 4:06 AM
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Time of Teeth

📷 Uus street

#estonia #tallinn #abonded #historical #urban #landscape #architecture #photography
The black and white image captures the quiet endurance of an aging wooden house in Tallinn’s Old Town. Weathered textures and subdued tones evoke the passage of time, turning architectural decay into a quiet reflection on memory and resilience. Photograph by Madis Puuraid Tallinn, Estonia - 2025
November 10, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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Echoes at Kalev

📷 Kalev´s stadium

#estonia #tallinn #urbangaze #modern #urban #landscape #architecture #photography
The first photograph turns inward, toward the stadium’s entrance pavilion - a dark, sculptural void framing a distant glimpse of the track beyond. The structure stands as both a threshold and a monument: an opening into space and time, evoking the tension between passage and permanence. Photograph by Madis Puuraid Tallinn, Estonia - 2025 The second image captures a lone runner tracing the perimeter of an empty field. The modernist skyline rises in the distance - geometric, indifferent, and still. Between motion and stasis, the scene becomes a quiet meditation on endurance within an urban landscape that has learned to wait. Photograph by Madis Puuraid Tallinn, Estonia - 2025
November 9, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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Game - Set - Match

📷 Juhkentali

#estonia #tallinn #historical #urban #landscape #photography
Tucked beside the historic Kalev track and field stadium in Juhkentali, these courts - built in 1958 - remain quietly alive. Their worn surfaces and faded lines tell stories of generations who trained, competed, and gathered here. Once a symbol of athletic pride, today they stand as a humble monument to endurance and time’s gentle decay. Photograph by Madis Puuraid Tallinn, Estonia - 2025
November 7, 2025 at 6:46 AM
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Structural Dialogue

📷 Arter quarter

#estonia #tallinn #urbangaze #modern #urban #landscape #architecture #photography
This black and white photograph captures the geometric precision of Tallinn’s Arter Quarter - a composition of glass and steel defined by intersecting lines and reflective planes. The monochrome palette emphasizes structure over ornament, highlighting the dialogue between transparency, rhythm, and mass. In the quiet foreground, traces of the urban park contrast with the vertical clarity of the towers, grounding the architecture within its evolving cityscape. Photograph by Madis Puuraid Tallinn, Estonia - 2025
November 6, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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Early morning sleepwalkers

📷 Freedom square

#estonia #tallinn #urbangaze #modern #urban #landscape #architecture #photography
A view of Tallinn’s Freedom Square at dawn, as people make their way to work. The illuminated St. John’s Church stands at the center, framed by the vertical light pillars that define the square. The image captures the quiet transition from night to day in the city’s daily routine.
November 6, 2025 at 7:48 AM
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Last

📷 Kopli lines

#estonia #tallinn #historical #industrial #urban #landscape #architecture #photography
The photograph shows the remains of a demolished residential area in the Kopli district of Tallinn. A last single brick structure stands in the center, surrounded by debris and leafless trees. Once part of a workers’ settlement, the site reflects the transition of the area from industrial past to redevelopment.
November 5, 2025 at 3:46 PM