STANLEY GREENE - OPEN WOUND: CHECHNYA 1994-2003 Ivan Vartanianwith contributions by Fujii

Ivan Vartanianwith contributions by Fujii Yūko

Always photographed from a central perspective and under an overcast sky

From the book's introduction: ''Vanishing speaks on behalf of life

where now each print is enhanced with color paints

multifaceted corpus: formal research

STANLEY GREENE - OPEN WOUND: CHECHNYA 1994-2003 Ivan Vartanianwith contributions by FujiiThe collapse of Russian communism in 1991 resounded to the shudder of an empire. It also sounded the death knell of the small, impoverished, forgotten land locked state of Chechnya in the Caucasus, which had the misfortune to be of geopolitical importance. Chechnya, whose population is mainly Muslim, reiterated its desire to become an independent state as it had already done 150 years earlier. In 1991, most Chechens were not aware of the economic