Nick Danziger b. 1958

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In the last twenty years the population of Transnistria has shrunk by one half – on average one working person supports seven relatives, and a third of its citizens are now pensioners. Moscow supplements their tiny pensions with a monthly $15 ‘ gift’ but many still cannot make ends meet without other work. This pensioners sells onions and eggs from a pram near the Vienna Café in central Tiraspol.

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The Kamenka sanitorium is renowned for its special grape juice and wine cure, as well as its spa water. Today it accepts only dollar-paying guests.

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At Tiraspol’ s central square stands a statue of generalissimo Alexander Suvorov who claimed the Transnistria region for Russia. Across from it a Soviet T-34 tank marks the Red Army’ s 1945 victory over Nazism. Almost all of Transnistria’ s official heroes are Russian.

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Signed and dated, from the series ‘The British’ – In 1994 he began a journey to capture the lives of Britains dispossessed communities. Taking more than 5,000 pictures which have evolved into series of photographic, documentary TV and writing projects on the nature of modern Britain, it was a two year journey which was hailed by Pete Davies in The Independent as ‘ so important that every one of us should read it and weep’ .

Signed and dated, from the series ‘The British’ – In 1994 he began a journey to capture the lives of Britains dispossessed communities. Taking more than 5,000 pictures which have evolved into series of photographic, documentary TV and writing projects on the nature of modern Britain, it was a two year journey which was hailed by Pete Davies in The Independent as ‘ so important that every one of us should read it and weep’ .

The host’s 70th birthday party at a sports club is celebrated in style.

F rom the series ‘Angola’ – Until 2002, Angolans had been at war for more than five decades – first against the Portugese, then amoungst themselves after independence. Millions of Angolans fled to the capital with no thought other than to avoid the fighting. Arriving in Luanda the heat enveloped me like a barber’s wet towl. Wealth and poverty live side by side. Children play in the smouldering refuse which is eventual;ly extinguished by the rains that turn the unmade streets into rivers the colour of milky coffee. During my stay the daily high points were my encounters with Angolans. Even though the peace contnues to hold, most to to bed filled with uncertainty. The most often repeated word: confuso (confusion) – all is not as it seems.

Nick Danziger

Water is an expensive commodity and a large portion of many Luandans’ income is spent on buying potable water.

Signed and dated bottom right – F rom the series ‘Angola’ – Until 2002, Angolans had been at war for more than five decades – first against the Portugese, then amoungst themselves after independence. Millions of Angolans fled to the capital with no thought other than to avoid the fighting. Arriving in Luanda the heat enveloped me like a barber’s wet towl. Wealth and poverty live side by side. Children play in the smouldering refuse which is eventual;ly extinguished by the rains that turn the unmade streets into rivers the colour of milky coffee. During my stay the daily high points were my encounters with Angolans. Even though the peace contnues to hold, most to to bed filled with uncertainty. The most often repeated word: confuso (confusion) – all is not as it seems.

Nick Danziger

Faith is a pillar of Angolan life and although most angoans are either Catholic, Baptist, Methodist, Congregationalist, or 7th day Advenists, imported religions are often fused with traditional beliefs and practices.

Signed and dated bottom right – F rom the series ‘Angola’ – Until 2002, Angolans had been at war for more than five decades – first against the Portugese, then amoungst themselves after independence. Millions of Angolans fled to the capital with no thought other than to avoid the fighting. Arriving in Luanda the heat enveloped me like a barber’s wet towl. Wealth and poverty live side by side. Children play in the smouldering refuse which is eventual;ly extinguished by the rains that turn the unmade streets into rivers the colour of milky coffee. During my stay the daily high points were my encounters with Angolans. Even though the peace contnues to hold, most to to bed filled with uncertainty. The most often repeated word: confuso (confusion) – all is not as it seems.

Nick Danziger

This refinery provides Angola with all its energy needs.

F rom the series ‘Angola’ – Until 2002, Angolans had been at war for more than five decades – first against the Portugese, then amoungst themselves after independence. Millions of Angolans fled to the capital with no thought other than to avoid the fighting. Arriving in Luanda the heat enveloped me like a barber’s wet towl. Wealth and poverty live side by side. Children play in the smouldering refuse which is eventual;ly extinguished by the rains that turn the unmade streets into rivers the colour of milky coffee. During my stay the daily high points were my encounters with Angolans. Even though the peace contnues to hold, most to to bed filled with uncertainty. The most often repeated word: confuso (confusion) – all is not as it seems.

Nick Danziger

In Angola, Fardo is a term used for second-hand clothes which have either been sold or donated by the west.

Signed and dated, from the series ‘Angola’ – Until 2002, Angolans had been at war for more than five decades – first against the Portugese, then amoungst themselves after independence. Millions of Angolans fled to the capital with no thought other than to avoid the fighting. Arriving in Luanda the heat enveloped me like a barber’s wet towl. Wealth and poverty live side by side. Children play in the smouldering refuse which is eventual;ly extinguished by the rains that turn the unmade streets into rivers the colour of milky coffee. During my stay the daily high points were my encounters with Angolans. Even though the peace contnues to hold, most to to bed filled with uncertainty. The most often repeated word: confuso (confusion) – all is not as it seems.

Nick Danziger

The Clubhouse. On the road south of Luanda you are now more likely to be struck by a golf ball than a bullet.

F rom the series ‘Angola’ – Until 2002, Angolans had been at war for more than five decades – first against the Portugese, then amoungst themselves after independence. Millions of Angolans fled to the capital with no thought other than to avoid the fighting. Arriving in Luanda the heat enveloped me like a barber’s wet towl. Wealth and poverty live side by side. Children play in the smouldering refuse which is eventual;ly extinguished by the rains that turn the unmade streets into rivers the colour of milky coffee. During my stay the daily high points were my encounters with Angolans. Even though the peace contnues to hold, most to to bed filled with uncertainty. The most often repeated word: confuso (confusion) – all is not as it seems.

Nick Danziger

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Until 2002, Angolans had been at war for more than five decades – first against the Portugese, then amoungst themselves after independence. Millions of Angolans fled to the capital with no thought other than to avoid the fighting. Arriving in Luanda the heat enveloped me like a barber’s wet towl. Wealth and poverty live side by side. Children play in the smouldering refuse which is eventual;ly extinguished by the rains that turn the unmade streets into rivers the colour of milky coffee. During my stay the daily high points were my encounters with Angolans. Even though the peace contnues to hold, most to to bed filled with uncertainty. The most often repeated word: confuso (confusion) – all is not as it seems.

Nick Danziger

Valiant efforts are made by families who have no access to medical facilities. Dodo makes several attempts to connect an IV drip to his sister. Her mother doesn’t always have the money to buy the medication in the local market for her dqaughter’s condition.

Signed and dated bottom right, from the series ‘Angola’ – Until 2002, Angolans had been at war for more than five decades – first against the Portugese, then amoungst themselves after independence. Millions of Angolans fled to the capital with no thought other than to avoid the fighting. Arriving in Luanda the heat enveloped me like a barber’s wet towl. Wealth and poverty live side by side. Children play in the smouldering refuse which is eventual;ly extinguished by the rains that turn the unmade streets into rivers the colour of milky coffee. During my stay the daily high points were my encounters with Angolans. Even though the peace contnues to hold, most to to bed filled with uncertainty. The most often repeated word: confuso (confusion) – all is not as it seems.

Nick Danziger

These young women have no option other than to fend for themselves, they all said that they wanted to go to school.

Signed and dated bottom right, from the series ‘Angola’ – Until 2002, Angolans had been at war for more than five decades – first against the Portugese, then amoungst themselves after independence. Millions of Angolans fled to the capital with no thought other than to avoid the fighting. Arriving in Luanda the heat enveloped me like a barber’s wet towl. Wealth and poverty live side by side. Children play in the smouldering refuse which is eventual;ly extinguished by the rains that turn the unmade streets into rivers the colour of milky coffee. During my stay the daily high points were my encounters with Angolans. Even though the peace contnues to hold, most to to bed filled with uncertainty. The most often repeated word: confuso (confusion) – all is not as it seems.

Nick Danziger

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Also available:

46 x 61 cm, edition of 10, £2,250

61 x 91.5 cm, edition of 5, £2,950

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46 x 61cm, edition of 10, £2,250

68.5 x 91.5 cm, edition of 5, £2,950

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Edition of 3

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Edition of 3

Also available:

46 x 61 cm, edition of 10, £2,250

61 x 91.5 cm, edition of 5, £2,950

Edition of 5

Also available:

46 x 61, edition of 10, £2,250

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The Kumbh Mela is a devotional festival for Hindus unlike any other Mark Twain wrote of his visit to the festival of 1894 in Following The Equator . Of it, he said: « It is wonderful, the power of a faith like that, that can make multitudes upon multitudes of the old and weak and the young and frail enter without hesitation or complaint on such incredible journeys and endure the resultant miseries without repining.»