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Liza Premiyak

Liza Premiyak is Managing Editor at The Calvert Journal and writes about photography, electronic music, art, and fashion. Her writing has appeared also in Apollo, The Art Newspaper, Magnum Photos among other arts publications. You’ll probably find her at a portfolio review somewhere in Eastern Europe. Follow her on Instagram here.

In search of old Russia on the Arctic shores of the White Sea

In search of old Russia on the Arctic shores of the White Sea

Sagaalgan: Buryat New Year kicks off with Buddhist rituals and bonfires in eastern Siberia

Sagaalgan: Buryat New Year kicks off with Buddhist rituals and bonfires in eastern Siberia

Falling for the stars: why one Polish photographer wants us to look at the night sky with awe

Falling for the stars: why one Polish photographer wants us to look at the night sky with awe

‘If I don’t look for him, who will?’ The Kazakh families searching for loved ones in Xinjiang’s detention camps

‘If I don’t look for him, who will?’ The Kazakh families searching for loved ones in Xinjiang’s detention camps

Udege: photographing a remote indigenous community in Russia’s Far East

Udege: photographing a remote indigenous community in Russia’s Far East

The boy whose fantastical visions of the Kosovo War captured the world

The boy whose fantastical visions of the Kosovo War captured the world

The Russian photographers changing the way we see Siberia

The Russian photographers changing the way we see Siberia

Friends-for-hire: why are people in Moscow renting companions?

Friends-for-hire: why are people in Moscow renting companions?

A bunker for every citizen: photographing Albania’s remarkable communist relics

A bunker for every citizen: photographing Albania’s remarkable communist relics

Bonjour, Parizh: I visited the Russian village with its very own Eiffel Tower

Bonjour, Parizh: I visited the Russian village with its very own Eiffel Tower

The Union of Synchronised Swimmers by Cristina Sandu dives into the complexities of migration | Calvert Reads

The Union of Synchronised Swimmers by Cristina Sandu dives into the complexities of migration | Calvert Reads

The wildfire fighters battling extreme heat in Yakutia

The wildfire fighters battling extreme heat in Yakutia

A golden-hued escape to summer evenings by the Sea of Azov

A golden-hued escape to summer evenings by the Sea of Azov

Photographing Belarusians’ brutal fight for survival

Photographing Belarusians’ brutal fight for survival

Revisiting the Slovakian hideaways where my parents found solace under socialism

Revisiting the Slovakian hideaways where my parents found solace under socialism

Uncovering the Balkan stories left untold

Uncovering the Balkan stories left untold

My babushka, my muse: one photographer captures her grandmother on Russia’s remote island of Sakhalin

My babushka, my muse: one photographer captures her grandmother on Russia’s remote island of Sakhalin

From Soviet monumentalism to mosques, take a peek inside the first architectural guide to Chechnya and the North Caucasus

From Soviet monumentalism to mosques, take a peek inside the first architectural guide to Chechnya and the North Caucasus

Life after Covid? Riga Photomonth is imagining a world just out of reach

Life after Covid? Riga Photomonth is imagining a world just out of reach

Photographing the magic and mystery of Belarus’s marshlands

Photographing the magic and mystery of Belarus’s marshlands

Watch Hanna & Kerttu’s poetic music video tribute to St Petersburg

Watch Hanna & Kerttu’s poetic music video tribute to St Petersburg

Without tourists, Bosnia’s Catholic pilgrimage site has turned into a ghost town

Without tourists, Bosnia’s Catholic pilgrimage site has turned into a ghost town

We Can’t Live Without Cosmos: how the Soviet space race transformed Russian cities forever

We Can’t Live Without Cosmos: how the Soviet space race transformed Russian cities forever

The everyday heroes behind Russia’s voluntary search and rescue team

The everyday heroes behind Russia’s voluntary search and rescue team

Love, loss and celebration: take a soul-nourishing 7500km train ride across Kazakhstan

Love, loss and celebration: take a soul-nourishing 7500km train ride across Kazakhstan

Taken on a thermal camera, these street photos of Moscow mirror our pandemic unease

Taken on a thermal camera, these street photos of Moscow mirror our pandemic unease

‘Feeling is everything:’ Anushka Chkheidze is an unwavering force in Georgia’s electronic music

‘Feeling is everything:’ Anushka Chkheidze is an unwavering force in Georgia’s electronic music

Lumber and leisure: a glimpse at life along Hungary’s Öreg-Túr river

Lumber and leisure: a glimpse at life along Hungary’s Öreg-Túr river

Photographer Marina Istomina’s modern fairytale delves into Siberia’s urgent wildfire crisis

Photographer Marina Istomina’s modern fairytale delves into Siberia’s urgent wildfire crisis

The story of a remarkable zoologist who lived among wolves in Georgia

The story of a remarkable zoologist who lived among wolves in Georgia

Two weekends of demonstrations in Russia — in photos

Two weekends of demonstrations in Russia — in photos

‘That’s all I remember of Georgia.’ A photographer who left the Caucasus as a child retraces her steps

‘That’s all I remember of Georgia.’ A photographer who left the Caucasus as a child retraces her steps

Photographing the Ukrainians who fled war and found refuge in Chernobyl

Photographing the Ukrainians who fled war and found refuge in Chernobyl

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