Cross-cultural Visual Dialogue

To commemorate the first anniversary of the annexation of Crimea, last week Everyday Eastern Europe took over EchoSight instagram account, presenting a series of montages made from images by Russian and Ukrainian photographers. As always, for me, the response to

Nerehta Stories

This is the final post about my experience of teaching a photographic storytelling workshop in Nerehta, Russia, in which I will feature a small selection of participants’ work. Chris and I were very impressed with the progress most students made over

Storytelling Workshop in Nerehta – Documentary & Fiction

This week photographer Chris Bethell and I are teaching a visual storytelling workshop at the International Youth Centre in Nerehta, Russia, so I will share few highlights from the four-day training. To illustrate different approaches to documentary storytelling, we started

Privately Gay

Having been on the road for a month-and-half now, it’s time to share few of the things I had been working on. The infamous Russian anti-gay bill has been a subject of much discussion since it was signed into law