Aramis, an Armenian refugee in the village of Nor Khachakap, Armenia, telling his story. He is one of the 400.000 Armenians that had to flee Azerbaijan during the 1988-1994 Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. The village was formerly inhabited by Azeris, who themselves had to flee Armenia for Azerbaijan. The 1988 Spitak earthquake destroyed most of the village, and the inhabitants had to rebuilt it under very difficult conditions.
Hasselblad X1 scan.
Iraqi couple of Armenian ethnicity, who fled Iraq five years ago and now lives in a communal center in Darbnik, near Yerevan. Photo taken in cooperation with UNHCR and Mission Armenia.
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Trevor Hunt in the Chatyn-Tau W (4310m, Caucasus) SE couloir (2200m, 55-60°), first ski descent.
This is the few images that exist of the descent, which is probably the steepest line skied in the Caucasus.
Svaneti/Georgia, May 2013.
(More: http://cargocollective.com/peter_s/NEW-Georgia-2013 )
Tskhaltubo is a former Soviet sanatorium, turned into a shelter for internally displaced people (IDP) from the short but intense 1992-93 Abkhaz war. Some 7000 IDP have been living here since 18 years in poor, cramped and unsanitary conditions, waiting for another future, seemingly forgotten by the rest of the world. More: http://cargocollective.com/peter_s/Tskhaltubo-IDP-Collective-Center
High on Pik Pobedy East (6762m), Tien Shan; taken prior to making the first ski descent of the mountain via the NE ridge (50°+). Climber: Anders Ödman.
Kyrgyzstan, August 2010.
Published in Backcountry Magazine 2/2011 (double-spread) and in Fotocommunity Magazin 2/2013.
Contax T3, B+W yellow filter and Agfa APX 100 (in HC-110). Scanned with Hasselblad/Imacon Flextight X1.
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A Kyrgyz Mil-Mi 8 helicopter at Khan Tengri (7010m) and Pik Pobeda (7439m) base camp in the Tien Shan mountains of Kyrgyzstan, about to pick up a group of climbers.
August 2010.
B+W yellow filter and Fuji Acros 100 (in HC-110); Hasselblad X1 scan.