New East Digital Archive

Female Gaze

Ukrainian avant-pop artist Hanna Svirska spins an ‘electronic fairytale’

Ukrainian avant-pop artist Hanna Svirska spins an ‘electronic fairytale’

‘Pure, free, raw, and natural’: exploring the female nude in tender portraits

‘Pure, free, raw, and natural’: exploring the female nude in tender portraits

Urban HerStories: activist-led project exploring women’s relationship to post-communist public spaces since the 1960s

Urban HerStories: activist-led project exploring women’s relationship to post-communist public spaces since the 1960s

In Moldova, photographer Jadwiga Brontē helps incarcerated mothers make joyful family albums

In Moldova, photographer Jadwiga Brontē helps incarcerated mothers make joyful family albums

Voluptuous, surreal, explicit: these daring digital collages explore female sexual taboos 

Voluptuous, surreal, explicit: these daring digital collages explore female sexual taboos 

Art in the Aral Sea: can craft help heal community living through ecological catastrophe?

Art in the Aral Sea: can craft help heal community living through ecological catastrophe?

Help unravel the untold stories of sisterhood at a former Soviet textile mill in Estonia

Help unravel the untold stories of sisterhood at a former Soviet textile mill in Estonia

One photographer’s homage to Crimea and the women who inspire her

One photographer’s homage to Crimea and the women who inspire her

Balkan and botoxed: one playwright holds up a mirror to Serbian beauty ideals and the result isn't pretty

Balkan and botoxed: one playwright holds up a mirror to Serbian beauty ideals and the result isn’t pretty

Why 70s art provocateur Maria Pinińska-Bereś is still so relevant in today’s Poland

Why 70s art provocateur Maria Pinińska-Bereś is still so relevant in today’s Poland

Dana Kyndrová’s celebrated photos capture the many facets of womanhood: subversive, painful, joyous

Dana Kyndrová’s celebrated photos capture the many facets of womanhood: subversive, painful, joyous

The female gaze behind the Iron Curtain: the brilliant archive of Joanna Helander

The female gaze behind the Iron Curtain: the brilliant archive of Joanna Helander

What's a sweet-toothed Serbian art installation doing in a skip in Selfridges?

What’s a sweet-toothed Serbian art installation doing in a skip in Selfridges?

Take a glimpse into the lives of women in Georgia’s wild Pankisi Gorge

Take a glimpse into the lives of women in Georgia’s wild Pankisi Gorge

Tender and messy, these photos of motherhood show you you’re not alone

Tender and messy, these photos of motherhood show you you’re not alone

Active, Engaged, Aware: Explore the modern female gaze with Organ Vida in Zagreb

Active, Engaged, Aware: Explore the modern female gaze with Organ Vida in Zagreb

Naked truth: the sad irony behind Instagram’s censorship of Dragana Jurišić’s photography

Naked truth: the sad irony behind Instagram’s censorship of Dragana Jurišić’s photography

Photos for mum: I staged my happily ever after to please my mother

Photos for mum: I staged my happily ever after to please my mother