Goodbye Eastern Europe? An Interview with Jacob Mikanowski
"That’s what I’m pushing again – to say: no, this is a unique and uniquely rich human landscape that has had also some of the most extreme experiences in all…Continue Reading →
The Latvian Operation: Stalin's Purge of the Old Bolsheviks
by Vincent Hunt Twenty years passed. Latvians held senior jobs in the Soviet regime in economic planning, the military, in the arts and in the security police. Their homeland was…Continue Reading →
Borderland Complexities: Photos of the Baltics' Eastern Edges
The project Baltic Borders, led by photographer and videographer Sami Siva, results from a period of fieldwork in 2021 and 2022 along the eastern borders of Estonia and Latvia. The…Continue Reading →
Holy Cats and Salted Mushrooms – ’90s Life on the Latvian-Russian Border
"I realise just now that this story about the sleigh in the winter could have happened in the 19th century as well as the 20th, and for some perhaps it…Continue Reading →
A Small Town's "Belle Époque": Long-Lost Images from Interwar Latvia
"Now the time has come to bring back the forgotten reality to its deserved place... to understand that life here was rather different in comparison with the inhabitants of Berlin’s…Continue Reading →