The Secret History of Khava Gaisanova
Rob Hornstra
Self-Published
English
Texts by Arnold van Bruggen
Softcover
Edition of 1100
352 pages
200 x 270 mm
2013
ISBN Not available
Khava Gaisanova lives in Chermen, a village in the heart of the North Caucasus. In 2007 her husband disappeared, like so many men in the North Caucasus disappear without a trace – kidnapped, arrested or simply executed and buried in anonymous graves. The unstable North Caucasus described in this book lies on the other side of the mountains from Sochi. In The Secret History of Khava Gaisanova and the North Caucasus, a grim picture unfolds of the region hosting the 2014 Winter Olympics.
The Secret History of Khava Gaisanova and the North Caucasus is the recipient of a Gold medal at European Design Awards 2014 and winner of the PDN Photo Annual Book Category, 2014.
Since 2007 Rob Hornstra and Arnold van Bruggen have been working together to tell the story of Sochi, Russia, site of the 2014 Winter Olympic Games. They have returned repeatedly to this region as committed practitioners of “slow journalism,” establishing a solid foundation of research on and engagement with this small yet incredibly complicated region before it finds itself in the glare of international media attention.
thesochiproject.org
About the Artist
Rob Hornstra, born in 1975 in the Netherlands, is a Dutch photographer of predominantly long-term documentary projects, both at home and around the world. He has published several books of solo work, produced documentary series for a variety of international magazines, and taken part in numerous solo and group exhibitions in the Netherlands and abroad.
robhornstra.com
Arnold van Bruggen (1979) is a writer and filmmaker. With his journalistic production agency Prospektor, together with his colleague Eefje Blankevoort, he uses film, photography and text to tell stories that are otherwise overlooked by the media.
(Source https://berlin-fotofestival.de/speakers/arnold-van-bruggenen/)
