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December 2025

  1. La iglesia principal de Nicea
  2. The Great Church of Nicaea

November 2025

  1. La basílica de Nicea
  2. The Nicaean Basilica
  3. El poder de las palabras
  4. The power of words
  5. La copa de la alegría
  6. The Cup of Joy
  7. Baños de Tiflis
  8. Baths of Tbilisi
  9. El Ziz
  10. The Ziz
  11. Los gansos de San Martín
  12. Saint Martin and his geese
  13. Gloria antigua
  14. Ancient glory
  15. Bride-viewing among the Miao
  16. Ojeando novias entre los miao

October 2025

  1. La taberna dong y el rey miao
  2. The Dong tavern and the Miao king
  3. Los bronces etruscos de San Casciano
  4. The Etruscan bronzes of San Casciano
  5. Pueblo de sombras
  6. Shadow folk
  7. Etruscan angels
  8. Ángeles etruscos
  9. Cámaras de maravillas en Venecia
  10. Cabinets of wonders in Venice
  11. La iglesia de los animales en Tirana
  12. The church of pets in Tirana

September 2025

  1. Circo brutalista en Albania
  2. Brutalist circus in Albania
  3. Estatuas errantes en Tirana
  4. Wandering statues in Tirana
  5. Blood and milk. Oresteia Kapidani’s exhibition in Shkodër
  6. Leche y sangre. Exposición de Oresteia Kapidani en Shkodër
  7. God's menagerie
  8. Las bestias de Dios
  9. Uchiwa Gallery
  10. La Galería Uchiwa
  11. Salome’s dance
  12. La danza de Salomé

August 2025

  1. The Lagami Church of Transfiguration in Svaneti
  2. En Svaneti: la Iglesia de la Transfiguración de Lagami

July 2025

  1. Museum in the fish factory. The Viinistu Estonian Art Museum
  2. The Estonian absurd
  3. Church island on the Daugava
  4. Feast in Riga
  5. The first victim
  6. Cuatrocientas toneladas de mapas secretos
  7. Four hundred tons of secret maps
  8. Production report on a sunken world

June 2025

  1. Pathos formulas

May 2025

  1. Lamproba: Lanterns for the dead in Svaneti

April 2025

  1. On the border of two Tibets. Dzokchen Monastery (Traveling in Kham 7)
  2. Easter Sunday in Sardinia
  3. Happy Easter

December 2024

  1. The first snow
  2. Christmas in Kashan
  3. Better to ride an ass that carries me than a horse that throws me. Donkey exhibition at the Egyptian Collection in Berlin

October 2024

  1. Nomadic wedding in Tibet (Traveling in Kham 6)
  2. The flood and the monkey

September 2024

  1. The towers of the Himalayas (Traveling in Kham 5)
  2. The Buddhas of Drakgo (Traveling in Kham 4)
  3. The monastery of Tagong (Traveling in Kham 3)
  4. The Love Song of Kangding
  5. Dartsedo / Kangding, the gateway of Tibet (Traveling in Kham 2)
  6. Andachtsbilder from Krumau

August 2024

  1. Burial in the sky
  2. Jashideley! (Traveling in Kham 1)
  3. The last journey of Lady Veruna

July 2024

  1. Spirits in Tusheti

May 2024

  1. Armenian Saint George
  2. Giorgoba
  3. Giorgoba

April 2024

  1. The gates of the dead
  2. El latido de la Edad de Piedra en Cerdeña
  3. The living Sardinian Stone Age

March 2024

  1. Luck
  2. Hagia Sophia through the back door
  3. Motherland from below. Photos by Dmitry Markov

February 2024

  1. The Koubba
  2. The boat of Saint Peter

January 2024

  1. Columbus’ coffin
  2. The last serf village in Europe
  3. The glass trumpet of the Magi
  4. There was a city
  5. New Year’s bread

October 2023

  1. Watching the fish in Sichuan

August 2023

  1. Ashura, minute by minute

July 2023

  1. Greek Saint Martin in the Pyrenees
  2. Походження і порятунок священних образів
  3. Происхождение и спасение священных образов
  4. The origin and rescue of sacred images

June 2023

  1. Resurrection

May 2023

  1. Brother Sun, Sister Moon
  2. The Red Church
  3. The vanished Van

April 2023

  1. Northern Mesopotamia, minute by minute
  2. Mussolini in new edition
  3. Easter Sunday in Sardinia

February 2023

  1. Posed Jews
  2. Guardian angels 1. Mosques of Afanour

January 2023

  1. The cathedral that failed

November 2022

  1. Iran, minute by minute
  2. Swallow calendar
  3. Kingdom forever
  4. Dissolving: The wonder

October 2022

  1. Our reputation in the world
  2. On the dignity of felines

September 2022

  1. They take me as a soldier

August 2022

  1. The printer’s devil
  2. Arrival of the Hungarians

July 2022

  1. Tao-Klarjeti, minute by minute
  2. But what happened to the Jews?
  3. Pandemic
  4. Hah

June 2022

  1. Mortal competition
  2. Messages from Mesopotamia
  3. The Greek church in Nizip
  4. A shaman in the basement

May 2022

  1. Iviron. The Georgian monastery on Mount Athos
  2. A cruise to Athos
  3. The Tower of Donation
  4. Pomegranate and iron thrush. The Sevruguin legacy in the Matenadaran
  5. Demonstration in Yerevan

February 2022

  1. Русский корабль, иди нахуй

January 2022

  1. Svaneti 1. Stones
  2. Winter in Mallorca
  3. The Magi from Paris
  4. Hotel Meissl & Schadn

December 2021

  1. Black men fighting in a tunnel. On Humboldt Forum’s new ethnographic exhibition
  2. Missing women
  3. Christmas in Mallorca
  4. Bethlehem in Cordoba
  5. The Elephant’s Well
  6. The lonely gazelle

November 2021

  1. Memento

October 2021

  1. And the men of Persia

August 2021

  1. Those who were left behind

July 2021

  1. Georgia, minute by minute. 2. Kutaisi

June 2021

  1. Georgia, minute by minute. 1. Tbilisi
  2. Lions on the wing

April 2021

  1. Signs of homeland
  2. A brewery on the Skadarlija

January 2021

  1. A border trip
  2. The kings of Florence
  3. Buda Castle watch

October 2020

  1. To the death of a master. Mohammad Reza Shajarian, 1940-2020

September 2020

  1. The Three-Handed Mother of God’s courtyard

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