Alexandros Demetriades’s Photos of a Divided Cyprus

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Seeing Contrasts Along Two Sides of Cyprus

Though Cyprus is smaller than Connecticut, Alexandros Demetriades has covered 22,000 miles in his trips there. He is hoping to capture a complex place that has been divided for 40 years.

via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/03/04/seeing-contrasts-along-two-sides-of-cyprus/

All told, he has covered more than 22,000 miles around Cyprus, a nation smaller than Connecticut. In his pictures, it appears as a land of stark contrasts — deep shadows and blinding white light, great beauty and real ruin

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