Ongoing Projects: Artsakh: Between War and Peace: NKRWP_001

A young man walks through the main square of Nagorno Karabakh’s capital city to meet one of the busloads of returning Armenian families who had been been displaced by the war. People often talk about the fog of war, but the fog of the aftermath is just as pervasive. It engulfs the moment and spreads outward, blurring the edges so that the past is obscured, the future impossible. As busloads of displaced families make their way back to Karabakh, the weather seems complicit with the uncertainty that hangs heavy in the air. The city of Stepanakert is enveloped in a fog so thick, returnees have no idea what they are returning to.

A young man walks through the main square of Nagorno Karabakh’s capital city to meet one of the busloads of returning Armenian families who had been been displaced by the war.

People often talk about the fog of war, but the fog of the aftermath is just as pervasive. It engulfs the moment and spreads outward, blurring the edges so that the past is obscured, the future impossible. As busloads of displaced families make their way back to Karabakh, the weather seems complicit with the uncertainty that hangs heavy in the air. The city of Stepanakert is enveloped in a fog so thick, returnees have no idea what they are returning to.