Sunflower Seed Snackers

Perm, Russian Federation

I’ve only just started to notice but it’s been happening all the the time: people biting on sunflower seeds, cracking them open, spitting out the husks, black on the outside and white on the inside and eating the seed. All around the little groups of people, in parks or on rivers’ edges, drinking or chatting, you will find accumulated at their feet the growing organic detritus of this the national habit. The pigeons come in and clean up the rest.