SocialDocumentary.net - janzychlinski

After some shorter visits I travelled from September 2014 to February 2015 through the South Caucasus (Armenia, Georgia, Nagorno-Karabakh, Azerbaijan) to document the fate and living conditions of refugees from the conflicts after the collapse of the Soviet Union. In several previous visits to the Caucasus he encountered again and again people who had been forced to leave their villages and towns in the wake of armed conflicts after the collapse of the Soviet Union. Many of them still live in camps, collective centres or partly in newly built settlements away from the rest of society. In the exhibition (and the book http://www.mitteldeutscherverlag.de/index.php?page=shop.product_details&flypage=flypage.tpl&product_id=1412&category_id=82&option=com_virtuemart&Itemid=1&vmcchk=1&Itemid=1), these people and their stories are representative of millions of other "forgotten" refugees and goes beyond the daily reports of ever new refugees.

Jan Zychlinski

anya.tetzlaff@googlemail.com Switzerland

Topics of Focus

Street, Documentary, Humanitarian Aid&Development, Conflicts, Social issues, People,

Geographic Areas of Focus

mostly Europe, East Europe, Caucasus

Biography

Born in 1961 in Karl-Marx-Stadt (Chemnitz) in the former GDR/East Germany

Studied History / German Philology and, after the end of the GDR, Social Sciences and Social Work.

For more than 15 years activities in Social Work, Urban Development, flood relief projects in East Germany and after the tsunami in the Indian Ocean. Lecturer in Social Urban Development at the Berner University of Applied Science since 2007, with additional focus on social photography and self-taught photographer.

http://www.jz-photography.ch