Photographer Kamil Chutuev has been photographing his native Daghestan since the 1970s. His photographs appeared in a recent exhibition in Makhachkala, "Planet of Daghestan," in which several photographers' work maps the cultural and natural landscape of the Caucasus republic over many years. In these images from the exhibition, Chutuev shows a strong and independent Daghestani people coexisting with a harsh but beautiful environment.
Daghestan Over The Decades
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Alikhma and Patimat from Goor village, 1991
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Tindi village, 2003
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A man from Balkhar village, 1975
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Bazardyuzu mountain, a 4466-meter mountain on the Russian-Azerbaijani border, 2002
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A photo from Chutuev's "Madonnas from Archib" series, 2009
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In the mountains, 2010
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A woman from Richa village in Rutul district, 1982
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Rugudhza village, 2005
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Girls from Kubachi village, 2010
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Photographer Kamil Chutuev at the exhibition of his and others' images in Makhachkala on August 29, 2013