The Lost War by Donald Weber (February 14, 2010) 
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"Hi Diederik. Edit looks good. Some of the things I was thinking while shooting in Georgia (and a theme in general that i've been approaching) is Terror Landscape, how the land is manipulated through violence." Donald Weber
When I first saw Donald Weber's Georgian/Russian war story I was intrigued with how matter of factly Weber tells the story. Most of it shows the result of dramatic events, but is, itself, bereft of drama. Take, for example, the photograph of the severed hand. It is lying in the green grass, flooded by warm sunlight, causing me to have mixed emotions. I am intrigued because the work defies a rule of indexation that dictates that a story on the aftermath of war should be grimm and communicates that hopelessness is everywhere. To me, Weber subtly challenges that rule, unintented perhaps, but still.
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From the bombed out buildings and burned villages, to portraits of the displaced and grief-stricken civilian victims, and through the troop movements of the Russian peacekeepers, Ossetian Militia, and Georgian military, VII Network photographer Donald Weber covered the many aspects of the Russian-Georgian War, achieving an incredible and thorough account.
Russia claims it will withdraw its troops from Georgian territory by Mid-October, but will remain in the break-away provinces of South Ossetia and Abkhazia.
Will Russia hold its end of the agreement, and withdraw from Georgia? Or will they remain in place, increasing the probability of further violence?
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