New East Digital Archive

Aram Balakjian

Aram Balakjian is a documentary photographer and writer from London, UK. His work has been featured in print, online, and on television including for The Guardian, the BBC, The Calvert Journal and Fodor’s Travel, as well as in a number of international exhibitions.

Meet the man who built Belgrade’s theatre of broken dreams, where the Yugoslav ideal lived and died

Meet the man who built Belgrade’s theatre of broken dreams, where the Yugoslav ideal lived and died

A nation’s tensions are laid bare in Kyiv’s colourful city-within-a-city. Welcome to Comfort Town

A nation’s tensions are laid bare in Kyiv’s colourful city-within-a-city. Welcome to Comfort Town

Into the Zone: 4 days inside Chernobyl’s secretive ‘stalker’ subculture

Into the Zone: 4 days inside Chernobyl’s secretive ‘stalker’ subculture