Evpatoria, Crimea by Vitaly Fomenko / @fomenkoarthouse for Everyday Eastern Europe / @everydayeasterneurope

documentEAST is delighted to announce a new collaboration with Everyday Eastern Europe – a collective mobile phone photography project documenting daily life in the region.

We were looking for a fun way to launch our Instagram account and teamed up with Everyday Eastern Europe’s founder Tina Remiz to curate a selection of images from the project’s archive and show you the region in a way you might have never seen before.

Everyday Eastern Europe was set up with a mission of challenging stereotypical representation of the region and celebrating its diversity. To show you new Eastern Europe, we picked 21 highlights from more than 1,000 photographs featured over the past year and a half.

Our Eastern Europe is new, cool, and surprising. It’s full of happy smiling people, stunning landscapes, cool street art, and exciting cultural and musical events. It’s not just a land of poor babushkas in headscarves (although, yes, many elderly ladies in rural areas still wear them) or pitchfork-wielding peasants (sure, there are many farmers but for a region strong in agri- and horticulture, that’s to be expected). Our lands are not covered in snow all year round, and we don’t really have polar bears wandering our streets – in fact, some of us even have beach resorts and palm trees (yes, you got it right).

If you want to be surprised and see a slightly different perspective on this fascinating region, have a look at the photographs we’ve selected. Enjoy!

P.S. Don’t forget to follow document EAST and Everyday Eastern Europe on instagram 🙂

Evpatoria, Crimea by Vitaly Fomenko / @fomenkoarthouse for Everyday Eastern Europe / @everydayeasterneurope

Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina by Iman Aldabbagh / @photosbyiman for Everyday Eastern Europe / @everydayeasterneurope

Moscow, Russia by Jeremy Nicholl / @jeremynicholl for Everyday Eastern Europe / @everydayeasterneurope

Savarsin, Romania by Ciprian Hord / @ciprianhord for Everyday Eastern Europe / @everydayeasterneurope

Riga, Latvia by Tina Remiz / @tinaremiz for Everyday Eastern Europe / @everydayeasterneurope

Krasnaya Polyana, Russia by Mikhail Mordasov / @mmordasov for Everyday Eastern Europe / @everydayeasterneurope

Arad, Romania by Ciprian Hord / @ciprianhord for Everyday Eastern Europe / @everydayeasterneurope

Sevastopol, Crimea by Vitaly Fomenko / @fomenkoarthouse for Everyday Eastern Europe / @everydayeasterneurope

Sochi, Russia by Lesya Polyakova / @lesya.polyakova for Everyday Eastern Europe / @everydayeasterneurope

Warsaw, Poland by Andrejs Strokins / @andrejs_strokins for Everyday Eastern Europe / @everydayeasterneurope

Pudisoo, Estonia by Fabian Weiss / @fabianweiss for Everyday Eastern Europe / @everydayeasterneurope

Bucharest, Romania by Davin Ellicson / @davinellicson for Everyday Eastern Europe / @everydayeasterneurope

St Petersburg, Russia by Vitaly Fomenko / @fomenkoarthouse for Everyday Eastern Europe / @everydayeasterneurope

Belgrade, Serbia by Marko Risovic / @markorisovic for Everyday Eastern Europe / @everydayeasterneurope

Budapest, Hungary by Tamas Andok / @thbxmn for Everyday Eastern Europe / @everydayeasterneurope

Chisinau, Moldova by Ramin Mazur / @raminmazur for Everyday Eastern Europe / @everydayeasterneurope

Tallinn, Estonia by Fabian Weiss / @fabianweiss for Everyday Eastern Europe / @everydayeasterneurope

Sochi, Russia by Lesya Polyakova / @lesya.polyakova for Everyday Eastern Europe / @everydayeasterneurope

Krasnaya Polyana, Russia by Mikhail Mordasov / @mmordasov for Everyday Eastern Europe / @everydayeasterneurope

Tbilisi, Georgia by Daro Salukauri / @darosulakauri for Everyday Eastern Europe / @everydayeasterneurope

St Petersburg, Russia by Vitaly Fomenko / @fomenkoarthouse for Everyday Eastern Europe / @everydayeasterneurope