All my childhood I was listening stories how some boy/man with friends were stealing a girl, to get a married after her. Sometimes girls didn’t even know who will be their future husbands and they didn’t have choice and decided to stay . It was a big shame to come back home after stealing. Everybody knows that you are not virgin anymore ,so who will marry you after that?! Family didn’t wanted to get them back, because now you have a new “owner”. It was “normal” in 90ies to Georgia, but I realize that its still happened somehow…
Dina Oganova – Georgian freelance documentary photographer.Now based between Georgia and Ukraine and working on a long term projects in ex USSR countries. In 2015 from PDN was named among world’s 30 best emerging photographers to watch. Won several grants from Open Society Foundation and was a curator of various exhibitions. Author of the first handmade Georgian limited edition (87) photo book “My Place”. Works as a lecturer at GIPA (Georgian Institute of Public Affairs) and Ilia State University.
Website: dikarka.ge
