Focus Area

Documentary Photography

We are flooded with images. Without images, there are hardly any publications and images can strongly influence the perception of journalistic topics. At the same time, photo fees are being cut and photo editors are being made redundant.
This is why we at n-ost develop projects in which the contextualised documentary image contributes to European discourse as a medium in its own right. We work together with experienced documentary photographers and editors from all over Europe.

Photo: Florian Bachmeier

Network members in related projects

Check out all the participating journalists listed here. This is what brings them together.

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Alex Cordova

Filmmaker, Photographer, Artist, Freelance

Antwerp, Belgium

Michelle Maicher

Photographer, Michelle Maicher

Hamburg, Germany

Matthias Schumann

Photographer

Dresden, Germany

Anthony Pizzoferrato

Photographer

Yerevan, Armenia

Karolina Mazurkiewicz

Art Director, Pismo

Anastasia Anisimova

Project Manager, n-ost

Berlin, Germany

Hannes Jung

Photographer

Berlin, Germany

Paweł Starzec

Photographer

Warsaw, Poland

Ole Witt

Photographer

Berlin, Germany

Magdalena Kicińska

Editor in Chief, Pismo

Warsaw

Anita Back

Photographer, Photographer

Berlin, Germany

Emile Ducke

Photographer

Berlin, Germany

Ramin Mazur

Photo Editor, n-ost

Chisinau, Moldova

Piotr Malecki

Photographer, Filmmaker, Freelance

Warsaw, Poland

Merlin Nadj-Torma

Photographer

Berlin, Germany

Florian Bachmeier

Photographer

La Lastra de Castro, Spain

Roland Bogati

Photographer

Pforzheim, Germany

Kostyantyn Chernichkin

Photographer, Freelance

Kyiv, Ukraine

Marc-Steffen Unger

Photographer

Berlin, Germany

Stefan Günther

Photo Editor, Neue Zürcher Zeitung

Zurich, Switzerland

Björn Steinz

Photographer, Okazphotography

Prague, Czech Republic

Martin Fejer

Photographer, Journalist, est&ost photography

Berlin, Germany

Agata Szymanska-Medina

Photographer

Berlin, Germany

Alina Smutko

Photographer

Poltava, Ukraine

Denis Sinyakov

Photographer

Moskau, Russian Federation

Maxim Sarychau

Photographer

Belarus

Marko Risovic

Photographer, Kamerades

Belgrade, Serbia

Sergey Novikov

Photographer, colta.ru

Milovan Milenkovic

Photographer, Kamerades

Belgrad, Serbia

Helena Lea Manhartsberger

Photographer

Evgeniy Maloletka

Photographer

Ukraine

Andrei Liankevich

Photographer

Minsk, Belarus

Daniel Kaldori

Photographer

Budapest, Hungary

Dobrin Kashavelov

Photographer, Cinematographer

Sofia, Bulgaria

Adam Lach

Photographer

Siarhei Hudzilin

Photographer

Minsk, Belarus

Jacob Ganslmaier

Photographer

Temo Bardzimashvili

Photographer

Georgia

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