The collapse of the Soviet Union did not only give birth to fifteen new independent republics, it also awakened the national identity of a multitude of minorities, their particularity suppressed for 70 years of the Soviet rule.
This was especially true in the Caucasus, a mountainous region in between four great empires; Russian, Turk, Persian and Mongolian. The cocktail of national and regional identities, structural reforms, economical interest and the new geo political configuration, contributed in making the 90s a period of great turmoil, an intertwined complexity that the photographs try to capture.