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Abkhazia, Sukhum. During the 1993 war with Georgia, over 10.000 people died and hundreds of non-Abkhazians were forced to flee the country, leaving a decaying city
Written on the back of this work is: “One of the absurd things about photography is the amount of pictures one takes that end up in a box, never to be seen again. Nearly all of the images I've ever taken have ended up unseen in a box. I took this image in Abkhazia in 2005, while I was working on my book Satellites. It shows girls doing their hair in front of a bombed-out apartment block. It was a sweet little human moment. But later that same evening I took another image of an old woman walking in front of the same building that was slightly more dramatic. And just like that, the image of the four girls had to go.” — Jonas Bendiksen
Image: © Jonas Bendiksen / Magnum Photos / Amgueddfa Cymru - Museum Wales
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Collection Area
Art
Item Number
NMW A 55426
Creation/Production
BENDIKSEN Jonas
Date: 2005 –
Acquisition
Gift, 25/4/2017
Donated by David Hurn, 2017
Measurements
h(cm) image size:9.4
h(cm)
w(cm) image size:14
w(cm)
h(cm) paper size:15.2
w(cm) paper size:15.1
Techniques
Digital Pigment Print
Material
Paper
Location
In store
Categories
Ffotograff | Photograph Gweithiau ar bapur | Works on paper Celf Gain | Fine Art CADP content CADP random Merch | Girl Plentyndod | Childhood Ffrindiau | Friends Steiliau gwallt, colur a chelf corff | Hairstyles, cosmetics and body art Difrod bom | Bomb damage Sifiliaid | Civilians Artistiaid y 21ain ganrif | Active in the 21st CenturyComments are currently unavailable. We apologise for the inconvenience.