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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.

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By Madeleine Brand • May 12, 2014 • 1 min read

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. 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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    Madeleine Brand

    Host, 'Press Play'

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    Andrew Walsh

    Too Beautiful to Live

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    Christian Bordal

    Managing Producer, Greater LA

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    Matt Holzman

    Producer, 'The Document'

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    Arnold van Bruggen

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