STANLEY GREENE - OPEN WOUND: CHECHNYA 1994-2003 To mark the 25th anniversary

To mark the 25th anniversary of the inaugural exhibition of Nausea in 1992 at The Photographers’ Gallery in London

And we’ve done a lot in the four years MYPH has been around: in addition to the teaching itself

the story of each archive and its discovery

Always photographed from a central perspective and under an overcast sky

STANLEY GREENE - OPEN WOUND: CHECHNYA 1994-2003 To mark the 25th anniversaryThe collapse of Russian communism in 1991 resounded to the shudder of an empire. It also sounded the death knell of the small, impoverished, forgotten land locked state of Chechnya in the Caucasus, which had the misfortune to be of geopolitical importance. Chechnya, whose population is mainly Muslim, reiterated its desire to become an independent state as it had already done 150 years earlier. In 1991, most Chechens were not aware of the economic