New East Digital Archive

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Second cycle: meet the New East expats chasing their creative dreams in the US

Second cycle: meet the New East expats chasing their creative dreams in the US

Explore the female gaze with this ex-Yugoslav artist

Explore the female gaze with this ex-Yugoslav artist

A thread in time: one photographer’s inspiring search for sisterhood in Uzbekistan

A thread in time: one photographer’s inspiring search for sisterhood in Uzbekistan

Photo diary: what I learned after coming out in noughties Poland

Photo diary: what I learned after coming out in noughties Poland

Alina Szapocznikow: how one sculptor turned Holocaust atrocities into devastatingly beautiful art

Alina Szapocznikow: how one sculptor turned Holocaust atrocities into devastatingly beautiful art

Quick honey, take a picture! Candid photos I took of my mum’s wild nights out in 90s Latvia

Quick honey, take a picture! Candid photos I took of my mum’s wild nights out in 90s Latvia

Lara Croft takes on the New East in this hilarious project

Lara Croft takes on the New East in this hilarious project

Bad to the bone: meet the fearless women in Poland’s first roller derby team

Bad to the bone: meet the fearless women in Poland’s first roller derby team

I'm with her: 13 photographers present their most intimate odes to womanhood

I’m with her: 13 photographers present their most intimate odes to womanhood

My girl: one photographer's ode to her best friend

My girl: one photographer’s ode to her best friend

Uncovered: how Polish artist-provocateur Natalia LL led a sexual rebellion behind the Iron Curtain

Uncovered: how Polish artist-provocateur Natalia LL led a sexual rebellion behind the Iron Curtain

Delights and violences: the Polish photographer tackling the pains of maternal love

Delights and violences: the Polish photographer tackling the pains of maternal love

Probabilities: Polish feminist avant-garde artist Natalia LL in London

Probabilities: Polish feminist avant-garde artist Natalia LL in London

Metro girls: these inspiring Moscow creatives are going places

Metro girls: these inspiring Moscow creatives are going places

Siren song

Siren song

Girl, interrupted: explore the struggles of small-town Poland through the eyes of a twelve-year-old

Girl, interrupted: explore the struggles of small-town Poland through the eyes of a twelve-year-old

Home stretch: a photographer revisits the Chelyabinsk gymnastics school of her childhood

Home stretch: a photographer revisits the Chelyabinsk gymnastics school of her childhood

Setting the bar: documenting the young prodigies of Romanian gymnastics

Setting the bar: documenting the young prodigies of Romanian gymnastics