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David Monteleone: Spasibo

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Security forces attending the 10th annual celebration of Constitution Day
Security forces attending the 10th annual celebration of Constitution Day© Davide Monteleone, VII Photo for the Carmignac Gestion Photojournalism Award
"Thank you". A simple expression, rarely posed as a question. But the viewer of David Monteleone’s exhibition Spasibo (Thank you) should be wary. For a keener eye and sharper ear are needed where a lens, seemingly clear, focuses on the twisted identity of Chechnya.

It is a country that drags with it a heap of tattered stereotypes, war-torn ideas of what constitutes a place and those who live in it. For many in the West,...

A group of elderly people praying in the mountainsWrestling practice in the central gymView of the Chechen Caucasus mountains from the high peak of the village of KharachoiThe special forces of the “Batallion Sever” (Battalion North), training for security operations

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