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The Oil Village.

  • 001. Left: Refugee settlement in the unfinished emergency hospital building. Baku, Azerbaijan. 2010 Right: Woman expecting a child in a refugee settlement in the unfinished emergency hospital building. Baku, Azerbaijan. 2010

     

    002. Left: Inachis io. Endangered. Habitat: Talish mountains, Nakhichivan and Guba. Azerbaijan. Right: Family at their door. Refugee settlement in a construction factory. Baku, Azerbaijan. 2010

     

    003. Left: Abandoned warehouse in Romani village in the suburbs of Baku. Azerbaijan. 2010 Right: Brothers in the unlit hallway of an unfinished emergency hospital building now a refugee settlement since 1993. Baku, Azerbaijan. 2010

     

    004. Boy playing his drum on a heap of construction waste. Refugee settlement in a construction factory. Baku, Azerbaijan. 2010

     

    005. Left: Nymphalis antiopa. Extinct in Azerbaijan. Right: Boy with a lolly-pop. Refugee settlement in a construction factory. Baku, Azerbaijan. 2010

     

    006. Left: Balakhani oil village. Baku, Azerbaijan. 2010. Right: Boys in the unlit hallway of their home in a refugee settlement inside the unfinished emergency hospital building. Baku, Azerbaijan. 2010Left:

     

    007. Left: Pararge adrastoides Bienert. Nearly extinct. Habitat Talish mountains of Lenkoran, Azerbiajan. Right: Girl living in a cardboard home on the top floor of an unfinished emergency hospital building now housing refugees since 1993. Baku, Azerbaijan. 2010

     

    008. Left: Refugee settlement at a construction factory. Baku, Azerbaijan. 2010 Right: View over the oil fields in Romani village, suburbs of Baku. Azerbaijan. 2010

     

    009. Left: Soviet era oil field. Balakhani village. Baku, Azerbaijan. 2010 Right: Man taking a medicinal oil bath in a sanatorium specializing in petroleum-based physical therapy. Bibi-Heybat village. Baku, Azerbaijan. 2006

     

    010. Left: Daphnis nerii. Habitat: formerly Baku and the Absheron peninsula. The specie is extinct in Azerbaijan due to near-extermination of the oleander trees and bushes. Right: A rarely seen oleander tree in the middle of a suburban refugee settlement. Baku. Azerbaijan. 2010

     

    011. Left: Shore of the "Iodine" lake polluted with petrol and plastic bottles. Balakhani village. Baku, Azerbaijan. 2010 Right: Residents of Gas Unit # 6 in Balakhani, a crumbling block of Soviet era buildings on an oil field, now housing some refugees as well as third generation oil worker families. Baku, Azerbaijan. 2010

     

     

    012. Left: Satyrus actaea. Habitat: Gobustan and mountains of Nakhichevan. Endangered in Azerbaijan. Right: Boy sitting on a Soviet era oil cistern. Balakhani village. Baku, Azerbaijan. 2010

     

    013. Left: School boys in a refugee settlement at the abandoned gas-processing factory. Bibi-Heybat. Baku, Azerbaijan. 2008. Right: Oil field in Romani village. Baku, Azerbaijan. 2010

     

    014. Left: Aynur at home with toy leopard. Balakhani oil village. Baku, Azerbaijan. June 2010 Right: Boloria caucasica. Habitat: high mountain altitudes of over 2500 meters above the sea, on peaks of Baba-Dag, Bazar-Dyuzi and Shakh-Dag in Azerbaijan. Endangered due to over-grazing in mountain pastures.

     

    015. Cat walking on a gas pipe. Bibi-Heybat oil village. Baku, Azerbaijan. 2008

     

    016. Left: Parnassius nordmanni. Endangered specie rarely found in Shah-Dag and Baba-Dag mountains of Guba, Azerbaijan.  Right: "Iodine" lake polluted with oil and plastic. Balakhani village. Baku, Azerbaijan. 2010

     

    017. Left: Recycling of plastic bottles. Main city dump, Balakhani village. Baku, Azerbaijan. 2010 Right: Ship cemetery on Nargin Island off the Baku bay. Baku, Azerbaijan. 2006

     

    018. Left: Boy with cat whiskers. Resident of Gas Unit # 6 in Balakhani, a crumbling block of Soviet era buildings on an oil field, now housing some refugees as well as third generation oil worker families. Baku, Azerbaijan. 2010 Right: Landscape of the Gas Unit # 6, Soviet era oil production. Balakhani, Baku, Azerbaijan. 2010

     

    019. Left: Colias chlorocoma Chr. Endangered specie, rarely found in the mountains of Nakhichevan, Azerbaijan. Right: Refugee woman living on a landfill. Baku, Azerbaijan. 2010

     

    020. Wedding dress on a garbage dump. Balakhani village, Baku. Azerbaijan. 2005

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