Merry Christmas and Happy New Year 2018 :)
Dear document EAST friends and followers, As the year 2017 is coming to an end, I would like to wish you all Merry Christmas and Happy New Year 2018! May […]
Category Archives: Russia
Julia Abzaltdinova, Spectator Pass (2014)
Spectator Pass (2014) by the Russian photographer Julia Abzdaltinova documents the resort city of Sochi and Russian sport fans during the 2014 Winter Olympics. When you delve deeper, however, this series really focuses on the visual representations of national identity and how that pans out in the context of one of the biggest sports events in the world.
Mariya Kozhanova, Declared Detachment (2012 – present)
Declared Detachment (2012 – present) by a Russian photographer Mariya Kozhanova takes us to the world of ‘cosplay’ in contemporary Russia, where the post-war generation explores its identity through costume play ‘imported’ from Japan. […]
document EAST is 2 years old!
document EAST is 2 years old! Two years ago on a rainy and foggy October day I set up document EAST. It started off as a virtual notebook for sharing some of my […]
Ikuru Kuwajima, A School for Nenets (2014)
In the arctic tundra of Russia, there is a boarding school for the Nenets, the nomadic northern indigenous people. A School for Nenets (2014) is a fascinating documentary project by […]
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’ […]
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 […]
Maria Gruzdeva, Direction-Space!
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 […]
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 […]
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