STANLEY GREENE - OPEN WOUND: CHECHNYA 1994-2003 the story of each archive

the story of each archive and its discovery

The book contains 230 photographs and detailed captions with explanations of the realities at the end of the book

where now each print is enhanced with color paints

The series was taken in 2012 by Sergey Melnitchenko

STANLEY GREENE - OPEN WOUND: CHECHNYA 1994-2003 the story of each archiveThe 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