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Tag Archives: Eastern Europe
Tamás Hajdu, Eastern Mirror (2012)
Eastern Mirror (2012) by Tamás Hajdu is a documentary project about everyday life in Baia Mare, Romania, where Tamás lives and works. Although seemingly focused on the trivia and candid, visually striking compositions, the photographs go much deeper than that, revealing interesting social and cultural phenomena so common in Baia Mare (and probably elsewhere too) that otherwise they would go unnoticed.
Zuzana Sramkova, Spodni Proud (2011 – 2015)
When the idea of setting up something similar to a squat was sparked in Ostrava, there were a few freaks willing to be a part of it. We were esoteric […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Marta Berens, Suiti (2014 – Present)
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 […]
Ioana Cirlig and Marin Raica, Post-Industrial Stories (2012 – present)
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 […]
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 […]
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