PHOTOGRAPHER & DOP
This project explores three recreational locations by the Caspian Sea in a time of the pandemic.
COVID-19 made us more inward looking. We are unable to cross international borders with the
same ease as before. At the same time our dependence on social media has grown. Local
bloggers and influencers began traveling more frequently inside the country. They produced
content, which had a snowball effect on local travel and changed our habitual tourist
destinations.
When traveling in Azerbaijan each time I discover something new. Sometimes it’s a new place, sometimes it’s a new experience. Often I arrive too late when the place had already lost its
functionality, though the vestiges of it's past existence remain in present time. Like in a film set, it remains deserted. This show is over and the next one has moved elsewhere.