Josef Koudelka: Ruins

For more than twenty years, Koudelka has traveled through the Mediterranean, visiting places such as Italy, Libya, Greece, and Syria to photograph more than two hundred archaeological sites. Stark and mesmerizing panoramic photographs take the viewer to Delphi, Pompeii, Petra, Carthage, and other ancient locations, including sites now greatly altered or destroyed due to recent conflict. Ruins is a monument of architectural and cultural history, as well as civilizations long past.