Fotograf Magazine

In the endless Zoom calls, especially during the pandemic, one had to navigate the time zones. Setting your meeting to CET—Central European Time—you see many cities listed, including Amsterdam, Stockholm, and Rome, but almost never Tirana, Kyiv or Warsaw, which are part of the former Eastern bloc. Back then I was often scheduling calls in Riga, and always Helsinki came up as your time mark. The higher visibility of the Western European cities on Zoom, might seem as a minor detail, and yet it is a reflection on how the European continent is seen from the US-prism. It is not only tech giants in Silicon Valley who see Europe through a Western prism but also many critical thinkers.