Rena Effendi, Chernobyl: Still Life in the Zone (2010)
The series Chernobyl: Still Life in the Zone, by Rena Effendi, an Azerbaijani photographer who grew up in the USSR, documents everyday lives of very few people still living in Chernobyl, […]
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Mila Teshaieva, Promising Waters (2010 – 2013)
Promising Waters (2010 – 2013) by Mila Teshaieva, Ukrainian photographer based in Berlin, is a very promising project indeed, and has already won a lot of acclaim. Promising Waters, as Teshaieva […]
Evgenia Arbugaeva, Tiksi
Tiksi by Evgenia Arbugaeva is a mesmerizing project about a small town on the Arctic coast of northern Siberia, where Arbugaeva comes from. During Arbugaeva’s childhood, Tiksi was an important military […]
Michal Iwanowski, Clear of People (2012 – 2013)
Clear of People (2012 – 2013) by Michal Iwanowski, a Polish photographer based in the UK, retraces a journey that his grandfather, Anatol, and his uncle, Wiktor, made towards the […]
Season’s Greetings
document EAST is heading East for Christmas but wanted to leave you all a small gift – a selection of vintage Christmas cards from the Polish People’s Republic and Soviet […]
Katharina Roters, Hungarian Cubes (2003 – 2014)
Hungarian Cubes by Katharina Roters, a German-Hungarian photographer, is a visual study of facades and ornamentation of single-family housing from the Communist era that can still be found in the Hungarian […]
Karlis Bergs, Between the Lake and the Sea (2011 – 2013)
Between the Lake and the Sea (2011 – 2013) by a Latvian photographer Karlis Bergs is yet another documentary project about human relationship to nature [see here for an earlier post […]
Camilla De Maffei, Where Europe Ends, 2012
‘Where Europe Ends’ (2012) is an interesting project by an Italian photographer Camilla De Maffei, in which she examines the symbolic borders of Europe. De Maffei follows the Danube, Europe’s longest river, […]
Alexander Gronsky, Pastoral (2008 – 2012)
Pastoral (2008 – 2012) by Alexander Gronsky (born in Estonia, based in Latvia) is a documentary series portraying the outskirts of Moscow, Russia. As Gronsky explains, the main focus of the project […]
Agnieszka Rayss, I Reminisce and Cry for Life (2011)
I Reminisce and Cry for Life by a Polish documentary photographer Agnieszka Rayss (a member of Sputnik Photos) portrays female veterans of the Second World War from Belarus. ‘This project was inspired […]
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