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Yuri Kozyrev

Yuri Kozyrev began his career photographing the collapse of the Soviet Union. He photographed the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan for Time magazine, and since 2011 has been documenting the Arab uprisings and their aftermaths in the Middle East.

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Art & Photography | Issue 126 padlock
Art & Photography | Issue 126 padlock

Paradise Lost

Yuri Kozyrev & Nathan Thornburgh

‘‘Abkhaz democracy reminds me a lot of America,’ an Abkhaz journalist tells me over coffee. ‘It’s a democracy of heavily armed people.’’

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