Photography: Giles Duley profiles Syrian refugees in a simple, heartbreaking way
2014
Giles Duley's unseen photos of the vulnerable victims of the war in Syria
2014
Photographs taken inside the Soviet cosmonaut training centre, Star City
2014
A tribute to the repurposed churches of the Soviet Union
2018
“I like to slap my audience or shock them”: Iranian documentary photographer Shayan Sajadian
2020
Nicolas Boyer documents an often overlooked side to Iran
2020
Photographer Alex Nazari explores Armenian history through its ubiquitous Soviet-era car, the Lada
2022
Julia Autz documents Transnistria, a country steeped in Soviet nostalgia
2016
Arghavan Khosravi on her fruitful yet uncertain journey as an Iranian painter
2019
Russian photographer Turkina Faso on the “post-Soviet aesthetic”
2017
Soviet bus stops captured by worldly photographer Christopher Herwig
2012
Art: Excellent project makes portraits of women from censored Iranian packaging
2013
The history of the hotel Venets: a 22-storey metaphor for Soviet utopia
2018
Lee Mawdsley shoots Qatar for CBQ and make us want to emigrate, fast.
2013
Yuko Michishita takes you through the A to Z of Iran in a refreshingly beautiful way
2012
Poignant, powerful documenting of the crisis in Syria by illustrator George Butler
2012
“A desire for the forbidden would be equal to treason”: Photographer Nikolay Bakharev on life in the USSR (NSFW)
2018
Photography: Andrew Miksys' photographs of the discos in Soviet era buildings
2014
“I’ve tried to prove that being a woman doesn’t mean weakness”: Fatemeh Behboudi on photographing Iran
2018
A Soviet vision of the future: the legacy and influence of Tekhikia – Molodezhi magazine
2017
The photographer profiling Iran’s gay refugees
2016
Stamps of a Revolution: Ali Mobasser's Iranian stamp collection and incredible family story
2018
Dive into the Syrian Stamp Archive for some bite-sized insights into Syria’s design history
2022
Amir Fallah’s paintings stage a captivating collision between Iranian and American culture
2022
A glimpse into the fascinating and incredibly odd world of Soviet-era sanatoriums
2017
Disco Tehran merges music, community and design through its world-wide parties and collaborations
2022
Preserving Syrian design history and graphics in the Arab world: Meet the Syrian Design Archive
2021
Concrete Citizens documents the residents of Soviet brutalist buildings in Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Moldova
2020
Sirkhane Darkroom works with children across Syria, Turkey and Iraq to learn skills in photography
2023
The Soviet Union goes neon in these mid-century illustrations of the future
2012