Tchétchénie. Le Silence Tue

Various photographers
Tchétchénie. Le Silence Tue

Photographs: Stanley Greene, Françoise Spiekermeier

Publisher: Les Anges Pressés

12 pages

Pictures: 21 (15 by Stanley Greene and 6 by Françoise Spiekermeier)

Year: 2002

Comments: Square paper magazine softcover, 30 x 30 cm, text in French, directed by Rita Scaglia. in good condition other than several stains on the cover.

This journey took me from Syria to Dagestan, Ingushetia and finally, Chechnya. Searching for a period of four-and-a-half months. Searching for clues of what happened to the Chechens, it became a photographic investigative journey and a personal one also, where I reopened my own scars from the war. My photographs are not about technique or “art”; they’re about pure gut feel and an attempt to discover hidden scars. At first, war photography seemed like a way to test myself, to exist on a knife-edge where there’s constant proof of being alive. Today covering conflicts is a very personal form of protest. Having witnessed many of them, I can honestly say that the evil of the Chechnya situation has born few comparisons in an arena thriving with competition. Explains Stanley Greene the main photographer of this work.