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Travel Mag, November 2023 – 10 Exemplary Works of Art Nouveau Architecture in BelgradeTravel Mag, September 2023 – 10 Extraordinary Examples of Modernist Architecture in Kyiv
Travel Mag, August 2023 – 10 Unique Examples of Modernist Architecture in Sofia
Time Extension, May 2023 – A Fistful of Rubles: Handheld Gaming in the USSR [Excerpt from A Handheld History: 1988-1995]
Hidden Europe, April 2023 – Bulgarian Riverlands [Print magazine]
Hidden Europe, July 2021 – On the Wrong Side of the Line: Report from a Ukrainian Village [Print magazine]
The Modernist, June 2021 – Nuclear Aesthetics [Print magazine]
The Verge, April 2021 – How the Video Game S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Inspired a Wave of Real-World Chernobyl Tourists
Strelka, April 2021 – Nuclear Semiotics [Book excerpt]
Literary Hub, April 2021 – Chillnobyl: Throwing a Rave in Chernobyl's Exclusion Zone [Book excerpt]
Folklore Thursday, December 2020 – The Future Folklore of Chernobyl
Deep Baltic, September 2020 – Sillamäe: Inside a Former Soviet Secret City in Estonia
Atlas Obscura, September 2020 – Exploring Chernobyl’s Imprint on Neighbouring Belarus [Book excerpt]
Greyscape, August 2020 – What Should Bulgaria Do With the Buzludzha Memorial House?
Atlas Obscura, May 2019 – The City the Chernobyl Disaster Left Behind, Then and Now
CNN, February 2018 – Georgia's Soviet-era Monuments: The Towering Titans of the Past
Atlas Obscura, February 2018 – A Visit to Chernobyl as it Transforms into a Solar Farm
The Calvert Journal, November 2017 – Buzludzha: The Conflicted Past and Uncertain Future of Bulgaria’s ‘Communist UFO’
Atlas Obscura, November 2017 – The Misunderstood History of the Balkans’ Surreal War Memorials
Folklore Thursday, July 2017 – The Duality of Modern Haitian Vodou
Deep Baltic, May 2016 – The Hill of Crosses: A Monument to the Defiant Spirit of Lithuania
Rupert Wolfe Murray, January 2016 – What I Learned from Four Years on the Road
Foreign Affairs, May 2015 – Cuba's Abandoned Nuclear City (And the People Who Call it Home)
Gizmodo, March 2014 – Welcome to The World's Largest Ghost City: Ordos, China
SELF-PUBLISHED
Ex Utopia, July 2020 – Occupy Mezhyhirya: Squatting the Mansion of Ukraine’s Ex-PresidentEx Utopia, June 2019 – Skeletons of Utopia: The Story of Shumen’s Central City Square
Ex Utopia, January 2019 – Room 202: Hunting for Ghosts at Winnipeg’s Fort Garry Hotel
Monumentalism, July 2018 – On Monumentalism
Ex Utopia, November 2017 – Life in the High-Rise: My Brutalist Holiday in Belgrade’s Genex Tower
Ex Utopia, April 2017 – Midwinter Minsk: Soviet Socialist Modernism in Belarus
Ex Utopia, December 2016 – Fidel Castro & the Curious Case of Freemasonry in Cuba
Ex Utopia, March 2016 – Inside Battersea Power Station
Ex Utopia, January 2016 – The Mystical Origins of the Kukeri: Bulgaria’s Strangest Folk Festival
Ex Utopia, October 2015 – An Occult Psychogeography of Hawksmoor’s London Churches
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