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Atlas of war and tourism
The Sochi Project exhibition
On October 18, in the Moscow Center for Contemporary Art “Vincuvod”, the Sochi Project exhibition of the Dutch photographer Rob Hornstra and writer Arnold Van Brugenna will open. The author of the photographs, however, will not get to the exhibition - the Russian authorities refused Hornust in the entrance visa.
Photographer Rob Hornstra
Hornstra and Van Brugenn are the authors of the Book of War and Tourism of the Caucasus, on which they began to work back in 2009. According to the authors of the authors, a large -scale Olympic construction - on the one hand, problems with human rights in Russia - on the other hand, forced the world to forget about the most important thing: that Sochi is in the Caucasus. Poverty, war, crime, just everyday life of people, their hospitality, cordiality, the ability to have fun ... faces, types, human stories. Abkhazia, North Ossetia, Georgia. All this is The Sochi Project and all this is the Caucasus.
However, in Russia it is not customary to think about ordinary people, construction is much more important. So there is nothing to a person with a camera to make a mistake near the regime objects ...
Adler, July 4, 2011
Beach near the Adler resort town
The village of Chokh, Dagestan. March 2, 2012.
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The village of Kirovaul, Dagestan. 23 February 2012
Saidimdmed Magomedovich Nasibov, 59 years old, lost on July 21, 2010 a son and nephew, shot down opposite his own house
Sochi. July 16, 2009
Mikhail Pavlovich Korotablenikov, 77 years old, every year comes here from Novokuznetsk to spend a vacation by the sea
Sochi. July 6, 2011 restaurant "Proletarian buffet". Visitors dance to the popular living music here
Adler. June 26, 2012
The construction of Olympic facilities is underway
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Ingushetia. July 3, 2012
Khamzad Ivloev, 44 years old, in the past, a policeman in the city of Karabulak, lost both legs, hands and vision, when he rushed at a grenade, saving his comrades.
The village of Naurskaya, Chechnya. July 12, 2012 Gemini Stanislav and Vladislav, 13 years old, received as a gift an apartment from Ramzan Kadyrov for reading a poem in Chechen
Click to increase the picture of Krasnaya Polyana. December 30, 2010 Gennady Ivanovich Kuk, 82 years old, lives on the outskirts of the central village of Olympic Games-2014
Click to increase the picture of the Matsestin resort, Sochi. July 17, 2009, Dima holds a leg burned during an accident under a stream of water from a hydrogen sulfide source
Sochi. June 24, 2012
Olga, 29 years old, works as a manager in the Art Club strip club at the Pearl Hotel. Olga is dancing from the age of nine, he says that he dreams of family and children, but the dancer will never leave the work of
Photos: photo stories from the book An Atlas of War and Tourism in the Caucasus (Aperture, 2013)/Salt images