Press Play with Madeleine Brand
War and Tourism in the Caucauses
Sochi is a summer resort town on the Black Sea coast at the southern tip of Russia. Despite having a subtropical climate, Sochi was selected to host the 2014 Winter Olympics., which begin next month. For the last 5 years, Dutch journalist Arnold van Bruggen has been traveling to the region with photographer Rob Hornstra.
By Madeleine Brand • • 1 min readSochi is a summer resort town on the Black Sea coast at the southern tip of Russia. Despite having a subtropical climate, Sochi was selected to host the 2014 Winter Olympics., which begin next month. For the last 5 years, Dutch journalist Arnold van Bruggen has been traveling to the region with photographer Rob Hornstra. The result is a hefty and impressive photography book put out by Aperture called The Sochi Project: An Atlas of War and Tourism in the Caucasus.
Arnold van Bruggen joins us from Amsterdam.
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4 of 5Philip Seymour Hoffman, Woody Allen & Sochi- 0:00Remembering Philip Seymour Hoffman
- 0:00Heroin Use on the Rise
- 0:00Woody Allen Accusations Resurface
- 0:00War and Tourism in the CaucausesYou’re reading this
- 0:00Politics Roundup