German, Russian, Georgian, Azerbaijani

• ISBN: 978-3-7165-1626-3
• Pages: 216
• Binding: Hardcover with dust jacket
• Published: 5/2010
• Illustrations: 80 illustrations
• Dimensions: 24.5 x 30 cm

The Magnum photographer Thomas Dworzak as "prisoner of the Caucasus"

From 1993 to 1998 the only German Mangum photographer Thomas Dworzak lived in the Caucasus, a mountain region on the territories of Russia, Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan ­– a region geographically so close to Western Europe and yet so far. The news of the first Chechen war is still in our memories; Thomas Dworzak was on site during this time and took pictures of an everyday life between despair and hope. But he also shows the boundless desire to live and the joy of life of the people there. The black-and-white photographs collected in this volume tell stories of the Caucasian soul: passionate, wistful, militant, terribly beautiful.