Every day $70 million worth of oil runs under their feet through newly constructed pipelines from the Caspian Sea to Europe, while hope fades away for resolving this long-lasting conflict. A cease fire was signed in 1994 but today, people in frontline villages get shot at while working in their gardens. This conflict is well and alive.

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Left: Drifter sleeping on her bottle. Mahalla slums, Baku.

Middle: Wedding dress at a refugee mud-house in Agjabedi. A refugee woman from Lachin said, "There are plenty of brides around here, but no decent houses for them to live in".

Right: Boy and his Moskvich car. Mahalla slums, Baku. Government sells land plots to construction developers that are buying out the slum housing from impoverished residents in Baku's historical neighborhood of Mahalla. Luxury high-rises are built in their place, residents are forced to move to the outskirts of the city.

Oil-rich Azerbaijan is still ruled by the ghost of its dead dictator, former KGB general Heydar Aliyev, whose face adorns billboards on every street. Nearly a million refugees displaced by a war with the neighboring Armenia, still live their shadow lives of debilitating squalor – sleeping in train cars and rat-infested dug-outs in the grounds.