Getty Images grant winner, Rena Effendi, completes project

Rena Effendi, winner of a Getty Images Grants for Editorial Photography, recently completed her project entitled Pipedreams: a chronicle of lives along the pipeline in Azerbaijan, Georgia and Turkey. 

Effendi writes, “Pipedreams is my first book that evolved from a long-term project documenting my country’s post-Soviet turmoil in which corruption, poverty and war were all related to, and fed by, oil and gas.  What I witnessed in this journey is that initial promises and expectations of trickle-down wealth still remain unfulfilled. Pipedreams is dedicated to the neglected people of Azerbaijan, Georgia, and Turkey, linked by the pipeline, and their faded hopes for a better future.” 

See Rena’s finished photo essay at Getty Images.

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