Newly-repaired house, and sisters, Shaamiyurt, Chechnya, DJG.

All photos here are by Daniel J Gerstle. All rights reserved. If you'd like to run one or buy a print, please contact me at djgerstle@yahoo.com.  

Cousins practicing tae kwon do just at the end of the war in Zivinice, Bosnia, DJG.

Life normal in isolated Nagorno-Karabakh?, Armenian-controlled Azerbaijan, DJG.
 

War veteran now works as a mercenary guard for humanitarians, nice guy, Badhan, Somalia, DJG. 

View from a women's NGO office at our guards in a divided mob trying to take down one of two men who tried to attack the mayor and our group, Galdogob, Somalia, DJG. 

A man injured and apparently mentally-impaired by the 2004 tsunami is in shackles as due to the war there are no care facilities, or real government for that matter, for four hours' drive, Qoton, Somalia, DJG. 

Azerbaijanis from Nagorno-Karabakh remained displaced after the war and depended on aid distributions like this one, Barda Turkish camp, DJG. 

Somaliland special police off-duty in the heat of Berbera, DJG. 

Islamic radicals of the Ittihad faction try to recruit young men to their cause in Xingalool, Sanag, Somalia, DJG.

Explosives removal teams prepare to sweep an area around a former Soviet military base where several people were killed, outside Ganja, Azerbaijan, DJG. 

Baathist Party parade grounds are at the heart of the Coaltion International Zone in Baghdad. Just a park for off-duty soldiers until recently, it's decaying, Iraq, DJG. 

Dzivgis, on the slope at the southern edge of the Russo-Georgian border is allegedly the final battlefield of the Ossetian resistance before the group accepted incorporation into Russia, DJG.

Here's my very first war-related photo. Though not so great in craft, I took it on a $12 point and shoot camera I picked up at a drug store before going over to Bosnia at the end of the civil war in 1996. Exploring the frozen front line in Grbavica, I couldn't help but marvel at this trench the Bosnian loyalists had built using cars for a wall. It was largely so that civilians who lived in the neighborhood could move between the buildings many of them still lived in without getting shot by Bosnian Serb soldiers looking down from beyond the stadium, Sarajevo, DJG. 

A man injured and apparently mentally-impaired by the 2004 tsunami is in shackles as due to the war there are no care facilities, or real government for that matter, for four hours' drive, Qoton, Somalia, DJG. 

Azerbaijanis from Nagorno-Karabakh remained displaced after the war and depended on aid distributions like this one, Barda Turkish camp, DJG. 

Somaliland special police off-duty in the heat of Berbera, DJG. 

Islamic radicals of the Ittihad faction try to recruit young men to their cause in Xingalool, Sanag, Somalia, DJG.

Explosives removal teams prepare to sweep an area around a former Soviet military base where several people were killed, outside Ganja, Azerbaijan, DJG. 

Baathist Party parade grounds are at the heart of the Coaltion International Zone in Baghdad. Just a park for off-duty soldiers until recently, it's decaying, Iraq, DJG. 

Dzivgis, on the slope at the southern edge of the Russo-Georgian border is allegedly the final battlefield of the Ossetian resistance before the group accepted incorporation into Russia, DJG.

Here's my very first war-related photo. Though not so great in craft, I took it on a $12 point and shoot camera I picked up at a drug store before going over to Bosnia at the end of the civil war in 1996. Exploring the frozen front line in Grbavica, I couldn't help but marvel at this trench the Bosnian loyalists had built using cars for a wall. It was largely so that civilians who lived in the neighborhood could move between the buildings many of them still lived in without getting shot by Bosnian Serb soldiers looking down from beyond the stadium, Sarajevo, DJG. 

Grozny, Chechnya, All rights reserved, Daniel J Gerstle.