It is late August 2004, and we are witnessing the final days of the Hotel Iveria, a luxury hotel turned refugee camp for more than 900 residents of Georgia’s warring breakaway regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia in the early 1990s. The hotel was set for demolition and all of its residents forced to move with little money and time.
The villages and people surrounding BP’s new Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline. Already threatened by the country’s volatile nature, endemic corruption and irregular electricity, the villagers now face possible environmental catastrophe.
"We're not afraid of their bullets, but they fear our stones," he says. "God gave us the stone—it has God's will in it. It's all we have. "The stone has awakened the Arab world, from the leaders to the laymen," he says. "This is only the beginning." Casualties of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, published in the February 2001 Village Voice cover story “Shoot to Maim.” http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0108/tolan.php
Take the 93-mile Lookout Mountain Parkway route from Gadsden, Alabama to Chattanooga, Tennessee. There are more than 1,000 yards in Alabama alone. Follow the U.S. 127 Corridor from Chattanooga, TN to Covington, KY, to find another 350 miles of bargains. All together, there are more than 5,000 yards along the 450-mile route.
Zeiger returned to her hometown in Iowa to shoot for Rick Smolan and David Elliot Cohen's popular America 24/7 and Iowa 24/7 books. Smolan and Cohen are known for their A Day in the Life series of photography books, which documented a single day across a city or country. The America 24/7 series features snapshots of American cities, towns and farms; people at work and at play.