Oskar Barnack Award Winner Jens Olof Lasthein « The Leica Camera

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The pictures are made in Abkhazia, one of the small breakaway republics of Georgia. I went there because I was curious about life in a country which didn’t formally exist: What is life like in a country marked by war, isolation and not recognized, with no or limited possibilities to travel abroad or having contact with the surrounding world?