Natalia is a Russian-born photographer who followed her love to Berlin. After five years in the German capital, she’s become well adapted to her new city. We talked to Natalia about her hometown Sochi, her favorite moments in Berlin, and her career choices after she relocated from Russia to Germany. Where were you born and where did you grow up? I was born in the southern area of Russia in the subtropical region of Sochi. I lived there for 17 years…
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Alexander Bondar is a photographer who co-created Zoopark Collective with photographer and publisher Tatyana Palyga. We met Alexander in Kreuzberg. He told us about his journey from Russia to Germany, why he didn’t like…
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Tatyana Palyga lived in many places before finally moving to Berlin. She recently opened Zoopark Studio with her business partner Alexander Bondar in Berlin-Neukölln. Reason enough for us to sit down with her and…
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Introducing Ira Thiessen. Ira is an incredibly talented photographer who recently graduated from the renowned Berlin photography school, Ostkreuzschule. Thiessen’s work is making appearances across many of the major newspapers at the moment, from…
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Introducing Sasha. Sasha arrived in Berlin approximately three years ago, up until which she had lived her entire her life in the Ukrainian city of Odessa. “One day I was sitting on the couch…
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This is Olga. The photographer and fashion design student was born and raised in Tomsk, Russia and moved to Berlin about two years ago. “The first time I was in Germany was in 2008,”…
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This is Sergej. Sergej was born and raised “in the depths of Siberia,” how he puts it himself and came to Germany with his family in 1998. His family moved to Baden-Württemberg and that…