‘I’d never noticed the icon before’: Ukrainian photographer Arthur Bondar’s best phone picture

A surreal image taken in Moscow

When Arthur Bondar came out of the metro station near Moscow's Bolshoi theatre, he was heading to a book fair. Besides his work as a photographer, he collects second world war negatives, and there was a catalogue of work by the war photographer Olga Ignatovich he was excited to see. It was early afternoon in Moscow, a relatively mild December day of around -5 or -10C.

I was approaching Nikolskaya Street, which is usually packed with tourists, locals and street performers - that day there was a bunny and an angel. I was passing through a pedestrian crossroads. There had once been a monastery here, dedicated to Saint Nicholas, which closed in 1923 and was demolished in 1935. I'd never noticed the icon on the left before."