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Portfolio - The Middle Distance 

Olivia Arthur 

A place where the traditions of the East meet the pull of the West; a bridge between two cultures, neither fully one side nor the other. In the politics of the fight between East and West, the role of women in society is often brought out as a measure of what is right and what is wrong. Accusations are thrown around, but so often without an understanding of the culture to which they are being applied. I wanted to find a place that might offer some explanation of what it really means to talk about the emancipation of women. 

Olivia Arthur 2006

TURKEY. Istanbul. Birds over the Bosphorous. 2006. 

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TURKEY. Istanbul. Getting ready for a wedding party. 2006. 

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TURKEY. Istanbul. Across the road from a cafe, a woman covers... 

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TURKEY. Istanbul. Behiye says goodbye to her family as she leaves... 

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TURKEY. Istanbul. Behiye and her new husband after the ceremony.... 

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TURKEY. Agri. Hediye and her two sisters are forbidden from ever... 

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TURKEY. Agri. A young girl in the east of Turkey who has just... 

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TURKEY. Bitlis. Songul is a teacher working in the town of Van... 

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AZERBAIJAN. Sumquait. Women mourn at a funeral gathering. 2006.... 

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RUSSIA. Yekaterinburg. gymnastics students train at a centre... 

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GEORGIA. Mejvreskevi. Katie is a design student in Tbilisi and... 

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AZERBAIJAN. Lankaran. A young wedding guest waits for the bride... 

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TURKEY. Istanbul. A bride gets a tattoo of her new husband's... 

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RUSSIA. Belaya. girls get ready for a wedding in a remote village... 

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TURKEY. Istanbul. Ozge and Filiz, two middle-class Turkish girls,... 

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AZERBAIJAN. Sumquait. Inside a refugee family's house. 2006. 

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RUSSIA. Yekaterinburg. Jenna, a design student from the Ural... 

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TURKEY. Istanbul. Girls at a summer school for learning to study... 

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TURKEY. Istanbul. On the last day of a Koran summer school, the... 

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GEORGIA. Tbilisi. A patient at the state psychiatric ward. 2006.... 

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RUSSIA. Kameshlova. Orphans watch squirells jumping in the trees... 

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RUSSIA. Yekaterinburg. Sisters at a youth detention centre. 2007.... 

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RUSSIA. Ilynskoye. Students at a remote village school train... 

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TURKEY. Dougbayazit. A picture of Ataturk on the wall in an internet... 

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AZERBAIJAN. Baku. Girls prepare tea for after the sunday service... 

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RUSSIA. Yekaterinburg. Christine is a thirteen-year-old mother.... 

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RUSSIA. Yekaterinburg. Models backstage at Ural Fashion Week.... 

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GEORGIA. Tbilisi. Metro workers in the control room. 2006. 

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GEORGIA. Tbilisi. Inmates at the women's prison pose in their... 

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GEORGIA. Tbilisi. A woman lies on the table in the dinning room... 

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RUSSIA. Yekaterinburg. A sixteen-year-old girl at a karate class.... 

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GEORGIA. Tbilisi. 2006. 

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RUSSIA. Yekaterinburg. Couples get their photograph taken in... 

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RUSSIA. Yekaterinburg. Students go in from training at a police... 

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RUSSIA. Yekaterinburg. Natalie was the victim of domestic violence.... 

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RUSSIA. Yekaterinburg. Evening view across an industial part... 

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TURKEY. Istanbul. Mina in the room she shares with her ex-boyfriend.... 

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TURKEY. Istanbul. Late night in Beyoglu. 2006. 

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TURKEY. Istanbul. Early hours at Crystal nightclub. 2006. 

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GEORGIA. Tbilisi. 2006. 

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GEORGIA. Tbilisi. 2006. 

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RUSSIA. Yekaterinburg. A woman rolls in fake blood as part of... 

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TURKEY. Van. Two wives bedrooms in a polygamous family. 2006.... 

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TURKEY. Istanbul. watching from the window. 2006. 

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TURKEY. Istanbul. Girls who have dropped out of school because... 

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TURKEY. Van. Songul teaching at a village school just outside... 

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TURKEY. Istanbul. Ozge on the phone to her mother, she recently... 

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GEORGIA. Tbilisi. A wishing tree in the hills above the city... 

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GEORGIA. Tbilisi. Nino is a kidnapped birde. Her boyfriend and... 

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GEORGIA. Tbilisi. Marika, an opera singer at the Tbilisi Stae... 

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GEORGIA. Tbilisi. Helen, a patient at the state psychiatric ward.... 

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GEORGIA. Tbilisi. Government housing blocks. 2006. 

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GEORGIA. Tbilisi. Ina, a patient at the state psychiatric ward.... 

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AZERBAIJAN. Baku. A photographers bench. 2006. 

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AZERBAIJAN. Baku. Sevinj is 25 years old and a keyhole surgeon.... 

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AZERBAIJAN. Baku. Nappies hanging on the line. 2006. 

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AZERBAIJAN. Baku. A cafe by the Caspian Sea with covered tables... 

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RUSSIA. Yekaterinburg. Thirteen-year-old Christine with her baby... 

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RUSSIA. Moscow. A couple asleep by the banks of the Moscova.... 

Olivia Arthur 2007

RUSSIA. Yekaterinburg. Advertising for a shoe-shop. 2007. 
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