Black tourism

Photojournalist Ambroise Tezenas last few years traveling to places disfigured by war, natural disasters and catastrophes. When these places go military, rescuers and doctors come there ... tourists.

Black tourism is becoming more and more popular. In fact, this fashion trends - a new form of expression of the nature of man. Professor John Lennon of the University of Glasgow, the author of the term "black tourism", explains: "This is based on our admiration for a person's ability to do evil, and delight in death. The same made people watch the executions and bloody battle. And, of course, the mass visits to the places where once there was organized genocide, does not prevent the chances that such a phenomenon as genocide does not happen again. "

The author of the photo project "Black Tourism" Ambroise Tezenas, inspired the creation of the project works Lennon says about his work: "People love to be photographed on a background of the places where hundreds of people were killed. Interestingly, one would say about it themselves killed. I just traveled to these places and take pictures of people who came there. I tried to do so, to discover the true face of this new kind of tourism. In these days when we are surrounded by virtual death on television screens and computers, real death is very far away from us. "

 1. Tourists in destroyed building schools in Syuankou, Sichuan Province, the site of the death of about 300 people in the earthquake. 2009. (Ambroise Tézenas courtesy Galerie Mélanie Rio)

 2. Museum of Auschwitz-Birkenau, Poland, 2009. In 2011, the former Nazi concentration camp was visited by 1.4 million. People - a record number since the opening of the memorial. (Ambroise Tézenas courtesy Galerie Mélanie Rio)

 3. Museum of Auschwitz-Birkenau, Poland, 2009. Block № 4. Cylinders with Zyklon B gas that plagues people in gas chambers. (Ambroise Tézenas courtesy Galerie Mélanie Rio)

 4. Place the assassination of President Kennedy in 2009. Tours to the murder scene may last half a day, and may all day - from 9 to 6, with lunch in the West End next to the "Museum of the sixth floor." (Ambroise Tézenas courtesy Galerie Mélanie Rio)

 5 Attractions in Pripyat, Ukraine, 2008. This famous tour gives everyone an opportunity to be photographed on a background of the 4th reactor disaster. (Ambroise Tézenas courtesy Galerie Mélanie Rio)

 6. Breakfast in the exclusion zone, Ukraine, 2008. Get access to the zone is possible only by a special document that you can arrange travel company. (Ambroise Tézenas courtesy Galerie Mélanie Rio)

 7. Oradour-Sur-Glance, "village of the martyrs", France, 2009. Day of June 10, 1944 the SS shot here 642 people, including women and children. (Ambroise Tézenas courtesy Galerie Mélanie Rio)

 8. Choeung Ek, Cambodia, 2010. At this place were executed 17,000 people, many of whom have passed before this torture and interrogation in prison in Phnom Penh. (Ambroise Tézenas courtesy Galerie Mélanie Rio)

 9. Building a conventional high school used the Khmer Rouge regime since they came to power in 1975 to the fall of the regime in 1979 as the infamous "S-21" Tuol Sleng translated from Khmer means "Hill of the poisonous tree." The building "A" were people accused of resisting the regime of Pol Pot. January 7, 1979 there were put on public display evidence of crimes committed in prison. (Ambroise Tézenas courtesy Galerie Mélanie Rio)

 10. Tour of the places devastated by the hurricane "Katrina" New Orleans, USA, 2009. (Ambroise Tézenas courtesy Galerie Mélanie Rio)

 11. Prison Karosta - Liepaja, Latvia, 2009. The only military prison in Europe open to visitors. Tour includes "interactive show" in which visitors can stay in the role of prisoners. (Ambroise Tézenas courtesy Galerie Mélanie Rio)

 12. Museum of the Lebanese resistance, Mlita, 2011. The trail, around which there were thousands of Mujahideen positions during the occupation of Beirut by the Israeli army in 1982. (Ambroise Tézenas courtesy Galerie Mélanie Rio)

13. The village of Maroun al-Ras, Lebanon, 2011. Here, on the site of heavy fighting Israeli forces against terrorists oragnizatsii of "Hezbollah" in 2006, the Lebanese authorities have arranged amusement park. Admission is free. (Ambroise Tézenas courtesy Galerie Mélanie Rio)