New East Digital Archive

Post-industrial

Fabrica: the story of how Bucharest's post-industrial hub escaped demolition | Concrete Ideas

Fabrica: the story of how Bucharest’s post-industrial hub escaped demolition | Concrete Ideas

Biking around Upper Silesia, photographer Tomasz Liboska captures the uncertain road that lies ahead

Biking around Upper Silesia, photographer Tomasz Liboska captures the uncertain road that lies ahead

Life in Kyrgyzstan’s once-booming uranium mining town, where the past poisons the future

Life in Kyrgyzstan’s once-booming uranium mining town, where the past poisons the future

Hidden and unmarked: vivid photos from inside Russia’s former closed towns  

Hidden and unmarked: vivid photos from inside Russia’s former closed towns  

Why one Ukrainian artist is turning the scraps of a Soviet factory into second hand clothes

Why one Ukrainian artist is turning the scraps of a Soviet factory into second hand clothes

A new crop of Romanian photographers is taking over Europe’s festival for young talent

A new crop of Romanian photographers is taking over Europe’s festival for young talent

This mega Russian steel plant is now welcoming tourists

This mega Russian steel plant is now welcoming tourists

True north: travel to the edge of the world with these photos of post-Soviet Svalbard

True north: travel to the edge of the world with these photos of post-Soviet Svalbard

High-wire: a vertiginous ride in Chiatura’s Soviet-era cable cars

High-wire: a vertiginous ride in Chiatura’s Soviet-era cable cars

On the Road of Bones: a journey along Far East Russia’s deathly gulag trail

On the Road of Bones: a journey along Far East Russia’s deathly gulag trail

Kyrgyzstan: a photographer documents a quiet nation waking up to a new dawn

Kyrgyzstan: a photographer documents a quiet nation waking up to a new dawn

Fighting spirit: remembering the boxing gym that gave Polish youth hope

Fighting spirit: remembering the boxing gym that gave Polish youth hope

Photo of the week: visit a fictional Slovenian town where time stands still

Photo of the week: visit a fictional Slovenian town where time stands still

Uralmash: inside the Soviet-era industrial powerhouse surviving on community spirit

Uralmash: inside the Soviet-era industrial powerhouse surviving on community spirit

Michał Sierakowski

Michał Sierakowski

Double take: How two radically different galleries are putting Kiev on the contemporary art map

Double take: How two radically different galleries are putting Kiev on the contemporary art map