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Pictures From A Vanished Country

olivia — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 14:54:58 +0000

"Earlier this year I realized we would celebrate the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. I went back into my archive and discovered that I had boxes full of negatives that I had never seen before, taken in East Germany over the past 50 years It was a treasure which had to be unearthed."

Double Happiness

olivia — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 19:54:52 +0000

Marriage brokers recruit young Vietnamese women to come to Ho Chi Minh City where they are viewed by groups of Taiwanese men. Within days of meeting, the couples will be married.

Georgian Spring

olivia — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 21:23:15 +0000

"The President was very relaxed with me, and went the extra length to take me places where other presidents would not take their photographers: into closed meetings, to lunches and dinners, behind the scenes at the UN..."

-Thomas Dworzak

Georgian Spring

olivia — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 20:34:37 +0000

"So for my visit, I decided to go looking for the most beautiful woman I could find. Over the course of several weeks, I traveled the entire country.

In a small Northern village I found N., the most beautiful woman in Georgia."

-Alec Soth

Georgian Spring

olivia — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 16:16:07 +0000

"And may he return without the help of any man or god"

-Odyssey, Book V, 31-32

Georgian Spring

adrian — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 15:44:52 +0000

The Argonauts came here in their quest for the Golden Fleece.

It was here that Prometheus was chained to the rocks.

Gods lived here.

Georgian Spring

adrian — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 15:08:15 +0000

This work is about the same story of war, same historical phantoms , same questions.

In Silence

adrian — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 22:16:34 +0000

Each year half a million women around the world die in childbirth. Twenty percent of those deaths are in India. Most of the deaths are preventable with access to proper healthcare.

Capitolio

adrian — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 15:21:54 +0000

"I sometimes imagine Caracas as a living breathing animal. Obscured by the darkness it appears both violent and sensual, but perhaps it's true nature will only be revealed at the moment it devours me." - Christopher Anderson

Taliban 2009

olivia — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 19:35:41 +0000

The Taliban ruled Afghanistan from 1996 to 2001. It's strict version of Islam allowed no photography or any depiction of Mammals. All men were required to wear a beard and women were no longer allowed an education and forced to wear burkhas.