Kamil Sleszynski, Input/Output (2014 – 2015)
You go to prison only once. The first time. After that, there is no prison. There is no freedom either. Everything is the same. A. Stasiuk, The Walls of […]
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Lilia Li-Mi-Yan, Masters and Servants (2014)
Masters and Servants (2014) by a Turkmen photographer Lilia Li-Mi-Yan portrays well-off Russian families and their domestic helpers in a revealing way… Masters and Servants is a series of staged portraits of ‘masters’ […]
Very Merry Christmas from documentEAST
Very Merry Christmas to all documentEAST followers 🙂 We hope you’ve enjoyed the past year with us and discovered lots of good documentary photography from Eastern Europe and former Soviet […]
Michal Luczak, Brutal (2010 – 2011)
Brutal by a Polish photographer Michał Łuczak (member of the Sputnik Photos collective) is a great example of a micro-documentary choosing to tell ‘little’ stories instead of grand narratives. In his cycle Łuczak documented Katowice Railway Station – once […]
document EAST is 1 year old :)
Did you know that documentEAST is already 1 year old? We hope you have enjoyed all the documentary photography from Eastern Europe that we have shared over the past year […]
Michal Solarski, The Hungarian Sea (2010 – 2011)
To send you the very last (virtual) rays of sunshine this summer, we’d like to share a new project – Hungarian Sea – produced in 2010 – 2011 by a Polish […]
New Eastern Europe: Stories Behind the Headlines – document EAST & Everyday Eastern Europe
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 […]
Yola Monakhov Stockton, Once Out of Nature: Travels through Russia (2003 – 2007)
In a slightly frivolous act we’d like to present winter imagery in the middle of the burning hot summer 😉 Upon stumbling on Once Out of Nature: Travels through Russia (2003 […]
Tomasz Lazar, Coastline (2008 – 2010)
Coastline (2008 – 2010) by Tomasz Lazar is a fascinating, black-and-white series about the Polish coastline of the Baltic Sea, where the photographer documents daily life on the coast. In the introduction to […]
Maciek Zych, Teachers (2012)
Today we present a photographic project from Tajikistan – a country we haven’t covered on documentEAST before, so we’re pretty excited! Teachers (2012) by Maciek Zych, a Polish photographer and a former […]
