We’re pleased to share a curation of works that spans the more than three decades of Thomas Dworzak’s photographic career. His incisive probing of contemporary politics and culture – and his taste for satire – make him a truly unique figure in his field.
GEORGIA. Abkhazia, November 1993. Reburial of around 120 Abkhaz soldiers killed six months earlier in a Georgian ambush. After the takeover of Abkhazia by the Abkhaz forces, they exhumed the bodies and families came to identify them. A woman wears a gas mask because of the smell.
GEORGIA. Sokhumi, Abkhazia, October 1993. Ethnic Georgian women waiting to take a bus deporting them to Georgia-controlled territory after Russia-backed Abkhaz militias took control of the former Soviet Autonomous Republic.
GEORGIA. Near the Russia-Chechnya border, September 1994. Mount Kazbek seen from the Georgian Military Highway. Kazbek cigarettes.
RUSSIA. Grozny, Chechnya, September 1994. Chechen Independence Day celebrations. Military parade and horse races.
RUSSIA. Grozny, Chechnya, September 1994. Pro-Djokhar Dudaijev (the late President) demonstration in the main square. Poster commemorating a World War II massacre of Chechens by the Soviet army in the village of Haibakh, in the mountainous region of Chechnya.
RUSSIA. Grozny, Chechnya, September 1994. Sufi “Sikr” ritual during a pro-Djokhar Dudaijev demonstration.
GEORGIA. Abkhazia, September 1995. Celebrations during the anniversary of the victory in the Abkhaz-Georgian war.
RUSSIA. Grozny, Chechnya, April 1996. Chechnya under the Russian occupation. On a bus.
GEORGIA. Near Ushguli, Svanetia, 1997. Traditional holidays.
RUSSIA. Novotsherkassk, Stavropol Region, April 1997. Graduation ceremony in the Novotsherkassk Cossack cadet corps.
RUSSIA. Ingushetia, November 1999. Chechen refugees living in neighbouring Ingushetia. (Train carriers, tent camps, cattle farms).
RUSSIA. Buynaksk, Republic of Dagestan, July 2000. Tuberculosis ward in a psychiatric hospital.
AZERBAIJAN. Mishlish, September 2000. New petrol station near the Iranian border.
RUSSIA. Grozny, Chechnya, March 2002. Destruction in the city center. Nothing has been rebuilt since the two wars. Girl with balloons.
AFGHANISTAN. Kabul, April, 2002.
IRAN. Tehran, January 2003. Near Valiasr Square. During Ramadan the streets are illuminated festively at night.
IRAN. Tehran, February 2004. The upper part of Valiasr Avenue. A man looking at a woman in a traffic jam.
IRAN. Tajrish Square, Tehran, May 2005. Imamzadeh Saleh Mosque.
IRAN. Tehran, May 2005. Valiasr Avenue. A couple between the men’s and women’s sections of the bus.
IRAN. Tehran, September 2006.
IRAN. Tehran, September 2006.
AFGHANISTAN. Near Delaram, between the Nimroz and Helmand provinces, August 2010. Outside of the US military base in Delaram. Georgian soldiers meeting locals during a patrol in Pashtu villages. Discussing security issues due to increasing Taliban attacks and influence.
AFGHANISTAN. Near Delaram, between the Nimroz and Helmand provinces, August 2010. Outside of the US military base in Delaram. Georgian soldiers on a hill overlooking an Afghan village.
KENYA. Kisumu area, near Lake Victoria, March 2018. In November 2017 the US non- profit Give Directly started giving out a universal basic income in several villages in the region. View of the house of Andrew and Gaelle, recipients of the funds. They bought cattle and window bars for their unfinished house.
FRANCE. Paris, January 2022. Anti-pass/anti-vax protest organized by Florian Philippot’s “The Patriots” party. Against vaccination and the sanitary pass as enforced by Emmanuel Macron’s government.
