This week, we meet Simon, a Russian expat interaction designer. Simon came to Berlin chasing love and stayed because he fell in love with the city itself. Now, he relishes the time he spends in his garden growing food to cook for his friends, organizing community gatherings, and reveling in the fact that his journey from Russia brought him here.…
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Helena Melikov is more than a Berlinograder, as a “Berlinogirl” she is also part of our Berlinograd team. We talked to the talented graphic designer about her childhood, about why Russian New Year’s Eve…
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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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Zoopark Publishing Collective launches Zoopark Studio [Berlin] in Kreuzberg Zoopark Publishing Collective is a team of two Russian photographers, Tatyana Palyga and Alexander Bondar, officially named Zoopark Collective since 2016, but actually united already in…
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This is the fabulous Lina Khesina. The illustrator and designer grew up in Pensa, Russia and came to Germany when she was 16 years old. At first, she and her family lived in a…
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This is Anatolij. Anatolij is originally from Ukraine and moved to Trier, Germany when he was 14 years old. To Berlin he came in 2002 in order to take up a job offered by…
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Meet Anna. Born in Moldova, she grew up in Nuremberg, Bavaria until she moved to Berlin about 2,5 years ago. Anna is an Illustrator, Graphic and Web Designer and you can check out her…