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’ […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Suiti (2014 – present) by a Polish photographer Marta Berens is a documentary project about the Suiti people – a small Catholic community inhabiting the Protestant western part of Latvia. When researching Latvian […]
Direction-Space! by Maria Gruzdeva is a documentary photography project about the Russian space industry and its two most iconic sites – Star City and Baikonur. Once top-secret locations, both sites opened their doors […]
Post-Industrial Stories (2012 – ongoing) by Ioana Cirlig and Marin Raica (both from Romania) shows documentary story-telling at its best. Just like the American photographer Dorothea Lange back in the 1930s, Ioana and […]
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