Thomas Dworzak The reburial of around 120 Abkhaz soldiers who had been killed 6 months earlier in a Georgian ambush. After the takeover of Abkhazia by the Abkhaz forces, they exhumated the bodies and famillies ca (...)
me to indentify them. A woman wearing a gas mask because of the smell. Abkhazia, Georgia. 11/1993. © Thomas Dworzak | Magnum Photos
Jonas Bendiksen With its lush Black Sea location, Abkhazia - a breakaway state within Georgia recognised by Russia and a few other nations - is trying to attract Russian tourists. Here, at a road stop on the tour (...)
bus route, an entrepreneur, who charges tourists 10 rubles to photograph his bear, catches his breath between busloads. Abkhazia, Georgia. 2005. © Jonas Bendiksen | Magnum Photos
Jonas Bendiksen Although Abkhazia is isolated, half-abandoned and still suffering war wounds due to its unrecognized status, both locals and Russian tourists are drawn to the warm waters of the Black Sea. This unr (...)
ecognized country, on a lush stretch of Black Sea coast, won its independence from the former Soviet republic of Georgia after a fierce war in 1993. Sukhum, Abkhazia, Georgia. 2005. © Jonas Bendiksen | Magnum Photos
Diana Markosian A life-size landscape revealed to Movses of his former home in Turkey. Haneshyan escaped his village of Kebusie as a child. I followed a hand-drawn map he had given to me to find his memories. I (...)
discovered everything he had described: the sea, the tree with the fruit he remembered eating, and the goats he shepherded. I found it all, even the rubble of what was once his church. Armenia. 2015. © Diana Markosian | Magnum Photos