Diane Smyth

Diane Smyth is a freelance journalist who has written for The Guardian, The Observer, The FT Weekend Magazine, Creative Review, the British Journal of Photography, Foam and many more. Before going freelance, she wrote and edited for the British Journal of Photography for more than 15 years, and she has also curated exhibitions for The Photographers’ Gallery, Lianzhou Foto Festival, and the Flash Forward Festival.

Severed from home, Serbian photographer Mirjana Vrbaški searches again for the familiar

‘Even weeds can have a soul.’ Finding joy with photographer Kuba Ryniewicz

‘If we close everything in one go, it will be a disaster.’ Photographer Michal Luczak on the troubling fate of Poland’s coal industry

Hungarian photographer Kíra Krász finds tenderness in textbooks and Tetris

Illusions in concrete: the Polish buildings that promised utopia

A new photobook of Polish surveillance images reveals the sinister mechanisms of totalitarianism

Can photographs document a united Europe? Rob Hornstra plans to capture a continent amid a decade of change

Czechoslovak photographer Jindřich Štreit found joy in spontaneity. The regime read his offbeat images as criticism

From Trump’s wall to the Hungarian border, Rafal Milach discusses the rising ‘ideology of division’

How one photographer swapped priesthood for a life shooting Russia’s spiritual landscapes

Enter the honey-hued world of Georgia’s rising photographer — Luka Khabelashvili

The Nazi invasion of Ukraine was caught on camera by a German soldier. Are these images revelatory or sinister?

Rare photos of Poles in 1970s Britain chronicle a forgotten first generation of Eastern European migration

Made from travel brochures and porn mags, these seductive collages subvert the Western gaze

The price of choice: what I learned photographing women denied their reproductive rights across the globe

How one Russian family showed this British photographer the links that truly bind us

In these staged photos, Kata Geibl explores the victims and victors of capitalism

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