The Forgotten People of the Pipeline

A photographic account produced in 2006 of the communities displaced by the conflicts in the Caucasus and Anatolia in the 1990s. They live along the BTC (Bakou-Tbilisi-Ceyhan) pipeline, which crosses Azerbaijan, Georgia and Turkey, extending from the Caspian Sea to the Mediterranean.

The pipeline is not visible, it is underground for safety reasons. Aboveground, witnessing the bankruptcy of Soviet policy, are the 600,000 persons displaced from the High Karabagh in Azerbaijan, the 250,000 displaced from Abkhazia in Georgia, and hundreds of thousands of displaced Kurds in Turkey. Fifteen years, after the end of the conflict, families still await their fate in derelict hotels, refugee camps or destroyed villages.

This book was published with support from Médecins du Monde (Doctors of the World) and Amnesty International.