During colonial times, Somalia was divided between British Somaliland (in the north) and Italian Somaliland (in the south- including Mogadishu). After WWII and Italy lost it’s colonies, Britain joined the two colonies together and in the 1960s, a united Somalia became independent. Following the 1970s war with Ethiopia, the Somali military dictator, Said Barre (a [...]
Abkhazia is a separatist region of Georgia that broke away in the early 1990s following the collapse of the Soviet Union. During the war of secession, tens of thousands were killed and several hundred thousand Georgian, Greek, Armenian and Megrellian citizens were forced to flee their homes during the ethnic purges. Regardless of the forced [...]
The Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC) first proclaimed independence in 1983, nearly 20 years after the partition of the Mediterranean island, creating two ethnic sides, Turkish and Greek. Since 1983, TRNC has been unrecognized as a sovereign nation and still suffers the economic embargoes and international isolation. However, with the support of Turkey, the [...]
In 1989, as the Soviet Union was collapsing, the constituent republics also began to disintegrate, and in Soviet Azerbaijan, ethnic clashes between the Armenian minority and the Azeri majority flared up, starting the long war of secession that would result in nearly 30,000 deaths and hundreds of thousands of displaced people on both sides of [...]
Transdnistria, wedged between Ukraine and Moldova, broke away form Moldova amid fears of a possible reunion with Romania following the collapse of the Soviet Union. Transdnistria has existed as an unrecognized country since 1992 when it declared independence from Moldova, the poorest country in Europe. Unable to trade legally in the international community due to [...]
Photos from this project have been published in magazines around the world, including Foreign Policy Magazine, Virginia Quarterly Review, The Global Post and Photo District News (PDN) Abkhazia, featured in Foreign Policy Magazine, January 2010 Somaliland, featured in Virginia Quarterly Review, Winter 2010 Magenta Foundation 2009 Book of Emerging Photographers
Narayan is an award winning editorial and commercial photographer in Madison, Wisconsin. All images on this site are the copyright of Narayan Mahon and cannot be used without permission.
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