Grozny: Nine Cities (10 Photos) | PDN Photo of the Day
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The shop window in the newly opened Grozny City shopping mall / Guests at a posh wedding party in a rich house outside of Grozny, 2010. Photos by Olga Kravets
Huge thanks to all our amazing bakers (in alphabetical order):
Aleksandr Sholomon,
Alexandra Anikina,
Alice Lagnado,
Aliona van der Horst,
Anna Loshkin,
Christian Esch,
Ciril Jazbec,
Dmitriy Velikovskiy,
Dmitry Ilyevsky,
Eugenia Maximova,
Galina Timchenko,
Gennady Victorov,
Gregory Eidinov,
Guillaume Herbaut,
Helen Rimell,
Igor Fridman,
Ilya Timakov,
Irina Sheludkova,
Jose Bautista,
Jussi Niemelainen,
Katja Heinemann,
Laura Montanari,
Laura Saunders,
Louis Quail,
Madeleine Leroyer,
Maria Ponomareva,
Maria Turchenkova,
Maria Vassilieva,
Markku Niskanen,
Mila Teshaieva,
Nicolas Mingasson,
Olaf Koens,
Oleg Cheremin,
Peter Evans,
Reem Akl,
Regina Mamykina,
Sara Terry,
Sergey Lisitskiy,
Sergey Ponomarev,
Simon Kruse Rasmussen,
Steve Mepsted,
Susanna Niinivaara,
Tanja Aitamurto,
Tommaso Barsali,
Tommaso Protti,
Vlad Sokhin,
Yuri Kozyrev,
and 22 our dear anonymous friends!!!
And also to all of you who share, share and share our links and spread our words about the project!
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Photo by Oksana Yushko, 2009
We are funded! Thanks a lot to all our friends! Now it’s time for us to move on to research for the upcoming trip that you all, dear friends, made possible.
“The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible.”
We want to thank all our dear friends who believed in us, many many thanks for your support, for you friendship and faith in our work and special thanks for your help in putting all together (in alphabetical order):
Alice Lagnado,
Andrei Polikanov,
Anna Nemtsova,
Anna Zekria,
Anna Shpakova,
Anton Nossik,
Belen Becerra,
Dimi Reider,
Galina Timchenko,
Irina Meglinskaya,
Joerg Colberg,
José Bautista,
Katya Bogachevskaya,
Karim Ben Khelifa,
Lenta.ru,
Liza Faktor,
Maria Zakharova,
Misha Fridman,
Peter Bitzer,
Susanna Niinivaara,
Sylo Taraku,
Tina Ahrens,
Yulia Vishnevetskaya,
Yuri Kozyrev,
and Vladimir Neskoromny.
Love from three of us!
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photos by Maria Morina. Russian soldiers are guarding the only orthodox church in Grozny. View of the church yard and Grozny city, 2011. A road in the outskirts of Grozny, 2011.
Grozny: Nince Cities project in Lenta.ru
We are really happy that our project was published in Russian for the first time in Lenta.ru (one of the leading media portals in Russia) special project Country that ceased to exist. For the first time we’ve also presented there a number of the interviews taken for the project, including the one with Akhmed Zakayev, one of the best-known Chechen exiles.
Crowdfunding campaign on Emphas.is
It has been amazing journey of almost two months since we launched our campaign on Emphas.is - the website that offers photojournalists a chance to interact directly with the public and to secure funding outside of the mainstream media.
We have been supported by 47 backers so far (there might be more already when you visit the website!), and what is may be the most important, we have established channels of communication with the future audience for our project. We’ve reached Chechens not only in Chechnya, but in diaspora in UK, Norway, Belgium, Finland and Jordan. We had the first Russian publication of the project by Lenta.ru - leading online media in Russia, which was a great start of sharing what we’ve done for the past two years with Russian audience. As Irina Meglinskaya, the prominent Russian curator noted on the importance of crowdfunding for projects on Russia, “it’s just a new form of financing stories about civil society by civil society itself at the times, when many seek funding either in US State Department or in Kremlin”.
There have been also interviews by BBC’s The Strand
and posts by DVAFOTO
and Conscientious
The responsibility is huge now. We HAVE to finish shooting the project. We HAVE to be in Chechnya on the election day, March 4, to witness the return of Vladimir Putin, responsible for the start of the second war in Chechnya, from there.
We are still beyond our funding goal, but it seems perfectly reachable - there are recent examples of crowdfunding showing that people even got far more than the funding goal in the last few days.
Please support us with a pledge or publication! Every little helps! 2014 will mark the 20th anniversary of the first Chechen war and we need to have a web-documentary launched before it, which requires us finishing shooting this year.
Big thanks in advance from all three of us!
Olga, Maria, and Oksana
