Kisah Wanita Chechen (15 photos)

abgsedapmalam · Post time 3-5-2012 09:30 PM

Photographer Diana Markosian, working at the Moscow agency in 2010, asked to be sent to Chechnya.  Diana, who grew up in Russia, but was studying in the U.S. at that time was only twenty years old, she was interested in the history of the infamous region.
  "The agency has refused to send me to Chechnya, so I decided to go there myself.  Terrible was my goal, and then home. "
  After the first visit, Diana went back to Chechnya, where many of her colleagues, she confessed, did not want to go.  In November last year, Diana finally moved here.  According to her, to live and work in Chechnya is risky and dangerous, are very frequent cases of kidnapping of girls.  Although the Russian authorities, saying that after more than a decade of wars, peaceful life in the region improved, but this is not true.
  In his photo project Markosyan tried to demonstrate the lives of girls living in Chechnya.  "It's one thing to come here for a week, as I did before.  It is quite another - to stay here and feel the experience of local girls. "

Chechnya after the collapse of the Soviet Union experienced a wave of Islamization.  For local residents became mandatory wearing of clothing appropriate religious canons, frequent polygamy and early marriage, attitudes towards women in men has become more conservative.  The head of the Chechen Republic, Ramzan Kadyrov has said publicly that women are the property of their husbands.
  In addition to religious restrictions Chechen life is complicated by social conditions.  In the republic there is a high level of unemployment.  Many young girls, even as mothers are forced to live with their parents.
  Diana had to change their approach to work, because the local people treated her with suspicion and fear to show it to your everyday life.  For example, a seemingly innocent picture smoking woman can have detrimental effects on smokers.
  Markosyan had to spend a week next to the "models", before she managed to make at least a shot.  Those girls and women, which it included in its design, are a reflection of ongoing processes in Chechnya.

A. Date

15-year-old Hedy Konchieva on a date with her boyfriend in the village of Serzhen-Yurt. The meeting should take place in a public place, young people have to sit with a good distance from each other. Any form of intimate contact is strictly prohibited, and those girls who had sex before marriage are at risk of being killed at the hands of their own loved ones.
Photo: Diana Markosian

Two. Seda Mahagieva

15-year-old Seda Mahagieva wears the hijab before leaving house. Seda said that it was her duty as a Muslim.
Photo: Diana Markosian

Three. Pair

A couple dancing at a party in the town of Shali, 30 kilometers from Grozny.
Photo: Diana Markosian

4. Farida Mukhayev

13-year-old Farida Mukhayev dancing on the wedding of her friend. According to tradition, the Chechen bride should be modestly during the ceremony in a corner, and the groom is rarely to appear on everyone's mind.
Photo: Diana Markosian

Five. Wedding

Guests dance at the wedding, one of them while brandishing a gun.
Photo: Diana Markosian

6. Schoolgirls

Students of the ninth grade in the village of Serzhen-Yurt. Unlike past generations, half of them are wearing hijab.
Photo: Diana Markosian

7. Madrasah

Girls learn the Koran in an underground madrasahs, or religious school in the village of Serzhen-Yurt.
Photo: Diana Markosian

Eight. People with disabilities

Football team disabilities who are affected by landmines, trains at the gym on the outskirts of Grozny. More than 3,000 accidents, the cause of them - mine occurred in Chechnya since 1994.
Photo: Diana Markosian

9. Girls

The girls returned home after morning prayers in the village of Serzhen-Yurt. They wear the hijab for the past two years, despite the disapproval of their families.
Photo: Diana Markosian

10. Shot

On the outskirts of Grozny, during a 29-year sunset Kazbek Mutsaev makes a festive shot as required by the old custom of a wedding in Chechnya.
Photo: Diana Markosian

11. Layusa

16-year-old Ibragimov Layusa reads the wedding vow in the presence of a local imam. According to tradition, the couple read vows Chechen separately
Photo: Diana Markosian

12. Layusa

  Layuse Ibragimova to style your hair and do manicures at her home in the town of Urus-Martan.  Her father gave
  Layusu marry 19-year-old Ibrahim Isayev.  Before the wedding Layusa and Ibrahim talked a few times.
  Photo: Diana Markosian

13. Schoolgirls

Schoolgirls sit on a bench near the mosque, "The Heart of Chechnya" in Grozny. The mosque is the largest in Russia and in Europe.
Photo: Diana Markosian

14. Chechen girl

Friends Seda Mahagievoy corrected her hat in her house in the village of Serzhen-Yurt. Seda is the hijab, despite the disapproval of her mother.
Photo: Diana Markosian