Maybe at first I didn’t appreciate the taxi driver, because of the way he careened down the coastline. Although, really, what a way it would have been to die. Such beauty. He would have reached over to light his cigarette, or change the tape in the tape deck, his hand would slip on the wheel, and …
Paradise Lost
Yuri Kozyrev & Nathan Thornburgh
‘Abkhaz democracy reminds me a lot of America,’ an Abkhaz journalist tells me over coffee. ‘It’s a democracy of heavily armed people.’
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The Silkworms
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Blue Sky Days
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Vladimir in Love
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The Transition
What made him do what he did? Could it have all been for an ice cream bar, really? Will any of us ever know? What made him do what he did? Could it have all been for an ice cream bar, really? Will any of us ever know?
Yuri Kozyrev
Yuri Kozyrev began his career photographing the collapse of the Soviet Union. He photographed the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan for Time magazine, and since 2011 has been documenting the Arab uprisings and their aftermaths in the Middle East.
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Nathan Thornburgh is the co-founder of online magazine Roads & Kingdoms. He is a former editor and foreign correspondent at Time magazine.
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