communism
Φωτογραφίες από τα Ρημαγμένα Διαμερίσματα της Πρώην Σοβιετικής Ένωσης
Ο Alex Schoelcher φωτογραφίζει τους κατοίκους στα απομεινάρια του μπρουταλισμού.
Μια Επίσκεψη στην Εγκαταλελειμμένη Κομμουνιστική Μέκκα της Βουλγαρίας
Στην κορυφή του Μπούζλουντζα υπάρχει ένα κόκκινο αστέρι από σκούρο γυαλί, που όταν άναβε, φαινόταν από την Ελλάδα και τη Ρουμανία.
The Last Ever Interview with the Leaders of Peru's Shining Path Guerrilla Army
Comrade Alipio and two other high-ranking soldiers of the Shining Path were killed this August when a cocaine trafficker turned police informant lured them into a booby-trapped brothel. In 2010, I was marched into Peru's jungle for a rare, and intimate...
Photographing the Sewer People of Bucharest
Two years ago, photographer Jen Tse went to Bucharest, Romania, to document the people who have been living desperate lives in the city's sewer system since being forced underground by severe poverty.
Why Is There a Photo of R-Patz in the Cuban Revolution Museum?
The Cuban Revolution Museum in Havana, housed in the former presidential palace, is still pockmarked with numerous bullet holes and packed with propaganda lauding Castro's Communist regime. Strangely, there is also a large picture of Twilight</i...
Vietnam Won't Stop Locking Up Its Bloggers
Vietnam is not a good place to be a blogger. At least, it's not a good place to be a blogger if you actually want to write what's on your mind. In the last month or so, three bloggers have been arrested for criticizing the communist government, or—as...
Crossing the Danube
Between World War II and the fall of Communism, many fled Soviet-controlled East Germany and headed westward. The stories of these defectors have been exhaustively documented, but much less is known about the few who headed against the tide, west to...
Photographing the Children of Romania's Communist Estates
During the communist period, housing estates were built all over Romania in an attempt to provide homes for workers. However, once the revolution came and capitalism swept in, the buildings were forgotten about and fell into disrepair.
Moscow Is a Paradise
It's easy to think of Moscow as a city of mausoleums, giant Lenin statues, and propaganda art museums, but photographer Igor Baranchuk insists his hometown is about so much more than post-communist sadness.
Women Are 'Pretty Scenery' at the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China
The most interesting story to come out of this week’s 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China isn’t the seven bland men who claimed the reins of power for the next ten years. It's the intensely demeaning portrayal of women in state-run...
Photographing the Towns Communist Romania Forgot
Ioana Cîrlig and Marin Raica plan to travel around the heavily-industrialized areas left after the Communist period, documenting the lives of the people who ex-Romanian President Nicolae Ceauşescu turned from farmers into miners, then left bankrupt...
I Was Communist Romania's Top Model
If I've learned anything from popular culture, it's that any country that has ever dabbled with communism has been MISERABLE. Everything is built from concrete and soil and people have to marry tractors. So, I wasn't wildly surprised when I heard that...