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Open Wound: Chechnya 1994-2003

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Photojournalist Stanley Green's "Open Wound: Chechnya 1994-2003" has recently appeared, arguably the most disturbing work ever to be published in English about the two Chechen wars, with haunting text to accompany pictures that should become as indelible in the mind as the photos of Hiroshima or Vietnam.

From "Escaping the Chechen Quagmire" www.rferl.org/reports/ucs 16 December 2003

This book is a must for everyone who is interested in the War against Chechnya. Pictures in this book, though not graphic, are very powerful. What the Russians are trying to hide, Stanley Greene exposes it and with class. It is going to be a classic.

A monumental achievement. OPEN WOUND by photojournalist Stanley Greene is perhaps the greatest visual argument against war to appear in book form since VIETNAM, INC. by Philip Jones Griffiths published in 1971. Courageous less for his obvious proximity to physical danger than for his direct engagement and emotional intimacy with his subjects. As visually stunning as it is politically critical. This is photojournalism of the highest standard.

Stanley Greene is a fine photojournalist - with a heart. In this disturbing portfolio he has captured the grisly details of the ongoing war in Chechnya. This book is limited to the years 1994 through 2003 and one of the areas of emphasis is the destruction of Chechnya's capital city of Grozny. But Green doesn't stop there.

Some could argue about the varying concepts of responsibility and political 'correctness' of this simmering cauldron of a war. But no one who reads this book can deny the too familiar aspects of what is captured here in photographs. War, whether confined to small countries or vast regions, is still a hungry and insatiable beast, and we can never view enough of the atrocities such as Greene is showing us that serve as constant reminders that we MUST find a viable alternative means of resolution of differences than the horror of the war machine.
Grady Harp, March 05

the book is truly amazing, as is its author. i had an honour to meet stanley personally and i can guarantee you that behind every picture there is his own blood and tears. he's lived and suffered and died with every single person he's met out there.

keep the book and pray for us all, if you can.

Very shock by the fotos and the texts. They bring me to Chechnya, the bloody hell. I was moved by the tough spirit of the Chechnya people. They are real steel not Russian army. The fotos tell stories.

If you want to see what really is going down in Chechenya, don't bother with this liberal bias. Go straight to Chechen websights like "kavkaz" you'll see the great photos and videos of wahhabi jihadists sawing off heads and blowing up people! Then read the great descriptions like when it's ok to kill civilians. And how many brainwashed females trained as suicide-bombers. And other nice praise for Bin Laden, Taliban, and terrorist jihadis slaughtering American "occupiers" in Iraq and Afganistan. Go straight to the horses mouth and you'll get the real deal not sympathetic propaganda for terrorists. Which not all chechens are, some are just trying to survive. But they won't get any sympathy from America until they kick the Arabs and Wahhabis out themselves.