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[ Cover ] Tkvarcheli, Abkhazia
Nature is steadily taking over a ballroom in the tourist resort of Pitsunda. In the time of the Soviet Union, Pitsunda and neighbouring Gagra were top tourist attractions.
[ 18 ] Pitsunda, Abkhazia
Brothers Zashrikwa (17) and Edrese (14) pose proudly with a Kalashnikov on the sofa in their aunt and uncle’s house. They live in the Kodori Gorge, a remote mountainous region on the border between Abkhazia and Georgia.
[ 16 ] Kuabchara, Abkhazia
View of the northern suburbs of Sukhumi, Abkhazia’s capital. The worst fighting took place here during the Georgian-Abkhazian war in 1992-1993.
[ 1 ] Sukhumi, Abkhazia
The river Ghalidzga intersects the former mining town Tkvarcheli. Since the war the population has dropped from 21,744 to 4,786.
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THE SOCHI PROJECT
This catalogue accompanies the exhibition Empty land, Promised land, Forbidden land: A portrait of the small, unknown country of Abkhazia, a lost Soviet paradise on the Black Sea.