Dagestan, 2000, photograph by Thomas Dvorak

German photographer Thomas Dvorak able to make shots that remains in memory. He lived in the post-Soviet area more than ten years and is fluent in Russian with a Georgian accent light (and all because long been in Tbilisi). See a selection of his photographs taken in Dagestan in the already distant year 2000.

Thomas Dvorak was born in 1972 and grew up in Bavaria. Have not yet completed high school, he began to travel around Eastern Europe and East and photograph. From 1995 to 1999 worked for the Agency Vostok Press. In 2002 he became the nominee, and in 2004 a member of the Magnum Agency. Regularly published in the magazines The New Yorker, Newsweek, USNews, Paris Match, The New York Times Magazine, and Time. The winner of the World Press Photo contests, the Prix Kodak, Kodak Young Photographer of the Year, the Prix Terre d'images, Scoop d'angers and the Pictures Of the Year. In 2003 he published the book "Taliban" in publishing Trolley.

1. Barber, Derbent, perfect iconostasis

2. Khasavyurt, post on the Chechen border

Thomas never went to photography school.

3. Friday prayer at the Central mosque of Makhachkala

4. The village of Tando destroyed in the battle with the Wahhabis

5. Kazbek Makhashev explains the residents of Khasavyurt political situation

6. Communists rally on the anniversary of the Revolution

7. In the Orthodox Church

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11. Couple

12. Soldiers and girls

13. Mountain village

14. The commemoration of Imam Shamil

15. Also have a wedding, so drive away the evil spirits

16. Hero Of Russia

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19. Evening entertainment

20. Derbent

21. The funeral of Dagestan, who was killed in a collision with informal militia

22. On the border with Chechnya

23. Wanted posters

24. Psychiatric hospital

25. Sanatorium

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27. Police RAID

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29. Derbent

30. Caucasian Jew

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32. Derbent, cadet College

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34. The police and the authorities-something notes

35. Market

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37. Derbent, Madrasah

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40. Prayer

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42. In the mountains

43. Again, note

44. Refugees from Chechnya

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46. The village of Tloh, Leader and Teacher

47. Died in the great Patriotic Avars

48. Mountains

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50. Local self-defence

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52. Glam hair salon, Makhachkala

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54. The Vicinity Of Kizlyar. Police reported the destruction of Islamic militants