Philipp Lausberg

Philipp Lausberg is originally from Munich, Germany. He holds degrees in History and Politics and Russian and East European Studies from the University of Oxford. Currently, he is finishing his Ph.D. at the University of Antwerp. He previously was based in Russia, where he worked at The Moscow Times and in the startup industry. For his project “Faces of the East,” a collection of portraits and stories, he regularly travels the post-Soviet space. He is co-running ostblog.org, a photojournalism website focusing on Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. He likes to write about travel, protest movements, ethnicities in Russia, and history.