WINNERS

Goodbye Gandzasar

  • Photographer
    Jc Tordai, France, Metropolitan
  • Prize
    Honorable Mention

Between 1993-8 I reported on the transition years from former soviet republic to independence, during a period of war in Karabagh, economic blockade, and severe energy shortages. In 2022 I returned to the country to report on Armenia's fourth decade of independence after a crushing defeat in the 2020 war in Karabagh. The photographs are a search for the zeitgeist of both troubled periods and an exploration of a nation in defeat.